Monday, February 24, 2014

Mar: RDA: Staff Training, Implementation, and Monographic Workflow (ALCTS)

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
sessions are intended to last 1 hour, starting:
11 a.m. Pacific  |  12 p.m. Mountain  |  1 p.m. Central  |  2 p.m. Eastern

This webinar will focus on describing the process of one academic library’s journey into adoption and integration of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging rules into the monographic copy cataloging workflows, following the adoption by the Library of Congress and other national libraries. The University of Illinois at Chicago Library took a very practical and functional approach to implementation and training. The webinar will cover:

    internal and external factors that affect implementation
    challenges of and practical solutions to being a single trainer at an institution
    statistical measurements of the initial workflow output

Learning Outcomes
Participants will:
    identify strategies for RDA implementation, training, and workflow
    comprehend one successful RDA monographic workflow implementation at an academic library
    gain an understanding of a successful training program for foundational FRBR and RDA concepts
    learn useful training tips and techniques for trainers of copy cataloging staff

Who Should Attend?
Cataloging managers and those who find themselves in a position of training non-librarian copy cataloging staff.

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/webinars/031914

Fee ($USD)
ALCTS Member (individual)     43
Nonmember (individual)     59
International (individual)     43