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1 January 2009 - 12:00 Library catalogues today need to harness the full power of the metadata that librarians have carefully created over previous decades. For those who describe resources the challenge is to create metadata which meets users' needs for data content and also facilitates machine manipulation of that data for searching and display. Resource Description and Access (RDA) will be an important building block in the creation of better catalogues and resource discovery systems. RDA is the new standard for description and access set to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AA...

1 February 2017 - 12:00 In February 2016 the legal deposit provisions in Australia’s Copyright Act were expanded to include digital publications and the public .au web domain. The result of twenty years of advocacy, the new provisions marked a dramatic shift in how Australia collects, preserves and makes accessible the full online publishing landscape. Legal deposit has been the core of the National Library’s collections and services since it was introduced in Australia in 1912. It remains the most important mechanism by which national and state libraries can preserve the published record...

Presented at the Deutsche Bibliothekartag, Mannheim, Germany, June 2008. Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a new standard for description and access. It will replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) in 2009. The presentation covers: The principles and models which guide RDA’s development The structure of the RDA standard, and how RDA relates to some other standards How it will be used in the web environment An overview of the group who is developing RDA and the timeline for RDA’s development. Acknowledgement of Country The National Library of Australia acknowledges Aust...