RDA Around the World

Marie-France Plassard worked for many years for two core programmes of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA ): Universal Availability of Publications (UAP), based at the British Library, and Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC (UBCIM), based at the German National Library. She is currently CCQ Associate Editor Gordon Dunsire is Chair of the Joint Steering Group for Development of RDA and is an expert in the technical development and implementation of international bibliographic standards for information resource description and retrieval.

1. Introduction 2. China’s Road to RDA 3. Are Philippine Librarians Ready for Resource Description and Access (RDA)? The Mindanao Experience 4. RDA: National Library Board Singapore’s Learning Journey 5. RDA Implementation Issues in the Iranian National Bibliography: An Analysis of Bibliographic Records 6. Acceptance and Viewpoint of Iranian Catalogers Regarding RDA: The Case of the National Library and Archive of Iran 7. Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of Academic Librarians in Turkey about Resource Description and Access (RDA) 8. RDA in Israel 9. The Adoption of RDA in the German-Speaking Countries 10. Translating RDA into French 11. The German Translation of RDA: Approach and Accomplishment 12. RDA in Spanish: Translation Issues and Training Implications 13. Implementation of RDA to Bibliographic and Authority Records from the LIBRUNAM Catalog at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 14. In the Company of My Peers: Implementation of RDA in Canada 15. Implementing RDA in a Time of Change: RDA and System Migration at RMIT Universit