National Library of Australia

Training materials for Resource Description and Access

The National Library of Australia is preparing a range of online training materials that are freely available to the Australian library community. These materials can be used by individuals or institutions for information, background or for use in training. This list will be updated as new materials are available.

For any questions regarding materials or formats or to access speaker’s notes or to advise us of any other useful training resources please email nlarda@nla.gov.au

Australian training materials

From AACR2 to RDA: the structure and purpose of RDA (Powerpoint slides and speaker's notes)
Jenny Stephens
National Library of Australia, Staff training presentation
Presentation 1 in a series of RDA Background Information Sessions

From AACR2 to RDA: the history and context of RDA development (Powerpoint slides and speaker's notes)
Jenny Stephens
National Library of Australia, Staff training presentation October 2010
Presentation 2 in a series of RDA Background Information Sessions

The FRBR family : the relationship to RDA (Powerpoint slides and speaker's notes)
Catherine Argus
National Library of Australia, Staff training presentation
Presentation 3 in a series of RDA Background Information Sessions

RDA toolkit demonstration (Powerpoint slides and speaker's notes) updated
RDA toolkit demonstration (speaker's notes only) updated
Jenny Stephens
National Library of Australia, February 2011.

International training materials

USA RDA Test, train-the-trainer webcasts
Webcasts and powerpoint presentations from an all-day “Train-the-Trainer” session that was offered at Northeastern University’s Snell Library on Jan. 15, 2010 by Library of Congress staff as part of the US National Libraries RDA test

RDA Toolkit Training resources
The Toolkit Publisher's Training page. It contains information about special access arrangements for training courses, as well as an archive of free webinars explaining the functionality and content of the RDA Toolkit.

FRBR entity relationship diagrams from the RDA Co-publisher site
Entity relationship diagrams are used in software or database development to produce a conceptual data model.These Entity Relationship diagrams check RDA Element Analysis against the FRBR model and are used in the development of the functional specifications.

NCSU Libraries RDA Training and Test Documentation
All documentation relating to the involvement of North Carolina State University (NCSU) in the US National Libraries RDA test. Includes training documentation, examples of workflows and RDA records, and NCSU RDA presentations.