Big News from LC regarding RDA implementation:As will be seen in the attached plan [on the website via the link below], we have determined that date to be March 31, 2013.

Many points of interest in the OCLC discussion paper on RDA including  how catalogers may  use OCLC records postRDA implementation:Proposed Future Cataloging Policy for Member Contribution to WorldCat after RDA Implementation

• Catalogers are not required to update or upgrade existing records to RDA.
• Catalogers may re-catalog items according to RDA if it is considered useful. Such recataloging should only be done with access to the item.

A little powerpoint (pptx format) comparing RDA and AACR2 for serials courtesy of Renette Davis. I wish it were embeddable, but it's not.

some screen shots of the RDA online product, links to documents giving background information, an RDA FAQ, a link to the Web site for the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC) and to the AACR2 Web site. Ooh, ooh -- a core record example using Oxygen XML editor!http://www.rdaonline.org/rda_samples/rda_samples.html

Hopefully, some of my fellow metadata "moonlighters" will see this survey also.------------To *all catalogers* (with or without MLS) in academic libraries:SURVEY: Integrating Non-MARC Metadata Production into the Duties of TraditionalCatalogers. You are invited to participate in a brief national, online survey.