{Posted on behalf of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee.  Please pardon any duplication.}

The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine are pleased to issue a statement from the Executives of the three libraries regarding the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access.  This statement and the Executive Summary of the Committee’s Report and Recommendations are being issued to allow interested parties sufficient time to review prior to the upcoming Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, June 23 -28. 

Statement from LC/NAL/NLM: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_Executives_statement.pdf

Executive Summary of the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_report_executive_summary.pdf

The full Report and Recommendations will be available prior to the ALA Annual Conference on the Testing Resource Description and Access Home Page: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/

Tina Shrader

Cataloging Section Head

Bibliographic Services Branch

National Agricultural Library, Room 112

10301 Baltimore Ave.

Beltsville, MD 20705

Phone: 301-504-5040

Email: tina.shrader@ars.usda.gov