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Recording Available: The Cataloging Manual Reinvented: the New RDA Toolkit and the 3R Project

ARLIS/NA has released recordings of eight sessions from the 2021 ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference, including the session Cataloguing III: The Cataloging Manual Reinvented: the new RDA Toolkit and the 3R Project. This session took place on May 12, 2021, as part of the ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference hosted by the ARLIS/NA MOQ Chapter. Presenters include Sherman Clarke, Liz O’Keefe, Alex Provo, Andrea Puccio, and Karen Stafford. In the presentation, members of the ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee give a general overview of the changes to RDA and the major conceptual and functional changes made to the Toolkit with a focus on the needs of art catalogers. RDA and the RDA Toolkit have undergone a substantial revision known as the 3R project (RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign). Panelists present on the CAC’s efforts to propose changes to RDA, on the potential creation of an RDA Toolkit application profile for cataloging art material, and the committee’s ongoing revision of the “Cataloging exhibition publications: best practice” document (published by ARLIS/NA in 2010) to comply with RDA standards.

View the recorded session at this link, and check out the official RDA 3R Learning Resources site for information, presentations and tutorials on the new RDA Toolkit.

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Summer Throwback: ARLIS 2018 Cat Section Meeting Handouts

Amid the stuffy, oppressive, stinky heat of New York City in late August, is it even possible to remember the cooler, albeit grayer, days of late February?

To aid in the quest for refreshing thoughts (or at least a happy distraction), linked here are the handouts from Kelly Swickard’s fantastic mini-presentations at the Cataloging Section’s Annual Meeting at this year’s conference:

Adding Binding Information to Artists’ Book Records, on using the 563 field to add binding characteristics

Cataloging Art Publications, which may be of particular interest; the handout was originally written as a manual for paraprofessional staff, and covers a lot of the particulars of art book cataloging in one brief yet information-packed document. It is RDA-compliant as of late February of this year.

Many thanks again to Kelly for sharing these, and my abundant apologies to everyone for taking so long to get these posted.

Stay cool!

 

(Image: Photographer unknown. Three women keep cool during a heat wave by moving a park bench into the water in Central Park, New York. September 1961.)