This article provides an insight into how the National Library of Scotland has adopted RDA for authority control work, in particular looking at training and the review process. With an overview of cataloguing operations at NLS, as well as an insight into how restructuring has delayed implementation of RDA, the article describes what has been achieved so far and how RDA training is going to proceed, with reference to the range of training resources to be used.
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British Library (2013) ‘British Library guide to RDA name authority records’. In: RDA Toolkit. ‘Tools. Workflows. Global workflows’, http://access.rdatoolkit.org/ (visited 16.4.13).
Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate (2013) ‘Descriptive cataloging manual section Zl and LC guidelines supplement to MARC21 format for authority data’, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/z1andlcguidelines.html (visited 16.4.13).
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Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging (2012) ‘Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS)’. In: RDA Toolkit. ‘Resources’. American Library Association; Canadian Library Association; Facet Publishing, http://access.rdatoolkit.org (visited 15.4.13).
National Library of Scotland (2013) NLS best practice guidelines for creating RDA NACO records, using it in conjunction with LC-PCC PS and DCM Zl. Unpublished internal document.
