[Enhance] Enhance applications and RDA

[OCLC Enhance]

Dear Enhance Participants,

We recently received a query about RDA records and Enhance Applications.
We are in the process of having the documentation updated [Enhance
requirements and application instructions
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/records/enhancerequir
ements/default.htm] but in the meanwhile wanted to keep you all
informed.

We are unable to accept RDA records as part of an Enhance application
during the duration of the RDA Test.

That means we can accept only AACR2 records at this time. They should be
full-level cataloging records[Encoding level: I] that represent the best
of the library's work in a single format.

We will re-examine this policy once the RDA Test has been completed and
the report of the analysis has been shared with the U.S. library
community.

For more information on OCLC and RDA please see:
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/default.htm  

A Tentative Timeline for U.S. National Libraries RDA Test is listed on
the Library of Congress Website here:
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/timeline.html

 

Jay Weitz
Senior Consulting Database Specialist
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
MC 139  6565 Kilgour Place
Dublin, Ohio, USA 43017-3395

Phone:  +1-614-764-6156
Fax:      +1-614-718-7195
E-mail:  jay_weitz at oclc.org

	and

Luanne Goodson
Consulting Database Specialist
OCLC Quality Control Section 
6565 Kilgour Place    MC 139 
Dublin, Ohio, USA 43017-3395 

Phone: (800) 848-5878 x5274
Toll-free fax: (866) 709-6252
E-mail:  GoodsonL at oclc.org