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Otterbein University

2014

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Implementation Of Rda In The Opal Consortium, Elizabeth A. Salt, David Powell, Jack Wu Jul 2014

Implementation Of Rda In The Opal Consortium, Elizabeth A. Salt, David Powell, Jack Wu

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The RDA Working Group, an informal subcommittee of the OPAL (Ohio Private Academic Libraries) Cataloging Committee was formed in 2011 to research the then under development RDA (Resource Description and Access) cataloging code and make recommendations to the entire membership of the OPAL Cataloging Committee on how to proceed with implementing RDA cataloging in the 24 small academic libraries which make up the OPAL Consortium. All of the OPAL libraries share one Innovative Interfaces, Inc. library system and share a public catalog, so it was important to develop some guidelines for RDA cataloging that all of the OPAL catalogers could …