The document discusses Resource Description and Access (RDA), a new cataloging standard intended to replace Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). It examines RDA's goals of being less Anglo-centric, enabling data sharing, and solving problems like multiple versions, but notes concerns that RDA was not adequately tested and may not be compatible with existing metadata standards and library systems. It predicts RDA will not be widely adopted and AACR2 will continue to be used.

2. How Should I Prepare for RDA? Should I Prepare for RDA?

3. What the Heck’s Going on with RDA!?!

8. Malaclypse the Younger. Principia Discordia . (1977)

13. And so, JSC changed course.

14. To have a new code If ALA Publishing has a best seller it's the cataloging rules.

17. “ We are now at a point in history where there is a convergence of ideas reflecting the optimism that improvements can be made on the way we describe, organize, and make resources available to users. We now have the ability to use descriptive metadata for direct access to resources. … B. Tillett. In Understanding FRBR. (2007)

18. “… When the resource is available digitally online, that descriptive metadata can be the direct connection to serving the user with the desired resource, while also enabling libraries to inform the user of versions of that resource in multiple languages or editions and providing pathways to related resources—all the works by the same creator(s), all the resources on the same subject, etc.” B. Tillett. In Understanding FRBR. (2007)

20. “ As bibliographers, we cannot indeed but wish, that the catalogue of every library were a bibliographical dictionary of its books. Practically, however, we must restrict our efforts, with the limits of probable accomplishment.” C.C. Jewett. Smithsonian Report on the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries. (1853)

22. The IFLA principles aren’t finalized There are no findings from FRBR experiments There is no general commitment to ramp up catalogs and cataloging by libraries RDA goes forth, but

26. RDA changes the cataloging not the coding

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35. And then the economy took a dive Nails in the Coffin

39. Malaclypse the Younger. Principia Discordia. 1977 RDA’s reign as sacred chao is coming to a close.

40. "You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." Friedrich Nietzsche .