OCLC Announces New RDA Records Policy Statement

A new policy statement about RDA (Resource Description and Access) records in WorldCat is now available as part of the RDA pages on the OCLC website. This new policy becomes effective March 31, 2013. It grew out of a discussion paper, "Incorporating RDA Practices into WorldCat", and the many comments received from member libraries in response to that paper. OCLC staff is grateful for those comments along with the work of a number of task groups of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, whose discussions of RDA practices have also influenced this policy statement. RDA is the new cataloging standard that will replace AACR2.