The Executives of the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine have issued a statement regarding the implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA).
According to the statement, “the Coordinating Committee recommends that RDA should be implemented by LC, NAL, and NLM no sooner than January 2013.” The decision is also contingent upon the completion of, or significant progress toward the completion of, some particular tasks and action items.
The full Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee will be available before the ALA Annual Conference on the Library of Congress Testing Resource Description and Access Home Page. An executive summary of the report is available now in PDF format. A statement from the executives of the LC, NLM, and NAL is also available in PDF format.
