Outreach
Throughout the process of developing RDA, input has been sought beyond the committee and indeed beyond the cataloguing community. In addition to cataloguers and library managers, there are also many other groups who are potentially affected by the changes in RDA: library administrators; library educators; system vendors; other resource description communities; national and international programs; IFLA and other rule-making bodies.
JSC has pre-existing mechanisms to consult with some of these stakeholders (such as the IFLA bodies, and DCMI) but not for some of the other communities. An Outreach Group has been specifically charged with developing relationships with these other stakeholders.
ACOC too is looking at ways to reach out to our stakeholders. In August 2005 ACOC formed a Focus Group to assist ACOC’s three ALIA representatives (Ebe Kartus, Ann Huthwaite and Philip Hider) and its three National Library of Australia representatives (Deirdre Kiorgaard, Julie Whiting and Rob Walls) to present the Australian point of view on RDA. Australian librarian can have input to this process through any of the members of ACOC. Contact details for the members of ACOC can be found on the ACOC website