CCS News
OCTOBER 8, 2010
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
New projects - Please let Linda or Richard know if you are planning new SIP, authentication or connectivity projects in the next six months. It would be good to discuss your plans ahead of time so that we can plan accordingly, amid our other initiatives including the BiblioCommons rollout and Release 3.3.1 testing and implementation.
Report from ILA – Linda spent part of Wednesday at ILA and it was good to spend time face to face with technical staff from TBS, Sikich, Techprologic, Evanced, and 3M. It is always an advantage to connect personally with these people who also work with us to support activities in the libraries.
Power outage – Commonwealth Edison will be interrupting power to our facility in Arlington Heights on Friday night. We are not happy as this is the second announcement, and last time they did not disturb the power at all. But we must be prepared. We will be in on Friday night at 10pm to take servers down. We will be in at 7am on Saturday to get everything running again. No systems at all will operate during the down period. This includes SVA telephone renewals, email, iBistro, and our normal telephone system.
RDA TOOLKIT
RDA is a newer version of AACR2.
RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. Built on the foundations established by AACR2, RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media.)
And the RDA Toolkit is a way to access these new standards or rules. It will only be published electronically by ALA & others
But bear in mind a few things:
·RDA hasn’t even reached full-scale testing yet by either LC or other libraries
·According to LC’s web-site, testing by the national libraries (LC, NLM, & NAL) & other testing partners was just supposed to start last week (Oct. 1st actually)
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/timeline.html
·Not until April 2011 will the testing by these groups be over, and LC will issue a report on their findings.
·During the testing period, you may find some records already encoded RDA on OCLC. For more information on OCLC & RDA (especially during the testing period), see their policy statement. http://www.oclc.org/rda/policy.htm . RDA records on OCLC will be identified as: 040 $e with value rda and Leader/18 (Desc) coded i if ISBD punctuation is used or blank if not. OCLC also asks for you not to edit a master record that’s already encoded as RDA, and change it back to AACR2. You may edit the record locally. Also OCLC asks that you don’t add a parallel record (like 2 different bib. records – one encoded RDA and another as AACR2)
So what does this mean to CCS?
·We’re all in a holding period just like lots of other libraries while the testing is being done.
·But it’s also a good time to familiar yourself with the RDA Toolkit, in case RDA is fully adopted and begins to be in full wide usage.
CCS and the RDA Toolkit:
1. CCS has just signed a Consortial license agreement with ALA
2. This will include all libraries, plus CCS HQ
3. One concurrent user per library, with unlimited signons per IP
4. CCS will be billed a certain amount annually by ALA & the CCS libraries will split the cost
5. CCS will provide a generic user name and password when it is ready to be accessed, so that the catalogers can become familiar with RDA and the RDA Toolkit.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
BIBLIOCOMMONS DOCUMENTATION:
We have added a BiblioCommons section to the “Members Only” part of the new CCS web site, www.ccslib.org. It includes many documents which will assist you with configuration, training and understanding the implementation process.
LIBRARY CLOSING:
Winnetka-Northfield will be closed Friday, October 8 for a Staff Institute Day.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 10/13, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 10/14, 9:30, Niles: ILL
