Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA)
Liaison Report
Submitted by Martha M. Yee for Kelley McGrath
Ball State University Libraries

Most of the CC:DA meeting was taken up with a review of the “issues deferred” list of unfinished business for RDA so as to plan for the preparation of revision proposals when the time is ripe.  John Attig, the JSC representative for ALA, has requested that groups such as OLAC that wish to prioritize a deferred issue take on the work of drafting a revision proposal, including suggested language for inclusion in RDA.  The fact that we have never seen the final text of RDA and cannot see the final text until after June would make this work quite difficult.

CC:DA received an RDA Toolkit demo from Troy Linker.  This will be available as a webinar in February 2010.

It was announced that RDA will launch in June 2010, at which time the U.S. National Libraries RDA Test will begin.  In preparation for this, the Library of Congress has been figuring out which former LC rule interpretations to include in RDA as LC policy decisions and which RDA options to follow, so that they will have incorporated all of this before testing begins in June.  The entire LC report is available.

From the launch in June to August 31, there will be a complimentary open access period.  You can get information about free trials, special introductory offers, and product updates.

The cost for the tool will be $325 as the “base price,” i.e., the annual licensing fee for one user at a time.  For 2-9 concurrent users, the cost will be $55 per additional user.  For 10-19 concurrent users, the cost will be $50 per additional user.  And for 20 or more concurrent users, the cost will be $45 per additional user.  Fees for large consortia are still being worked out.  Despite constant requests from smaller libraries and archives throughout the development process for a paper version, it was announced at this meeting that there will be no paper version. 

The RDA Programming Task Force announced that they are planning a preconference, RDA 101 and an RDA update forum for ALA Annual 2010 in Washington, D.C.