May 21, 2008
LC, NLM and NAL Plan for Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Deanna B. Marcum, the associate librarian for library services at the Library of Congress, has made available the Joint Statement of the Library of Congress (LC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Agricultural Library (NAL) on Resource Description and Access (RDA). The Joint Statement is a response to the recommendation from the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control that work on RDA be suspended.
The Joint Statement notes that "[t]he collective resolve is to complete the development of RDA, to conduct appropriate tests that will inform and involve the broader U.S. library community as to the utility of the code, and to ensure a product that is useful, usable, and cost effective."
The complete text is available by downloading a PDF copy of the statement.
