RDA Forum: 2017 Annual Conference

The RDA (Resource Description and Access) Forum was held on Saturday, June 24, 2017, with approximately 90 people in attendance. James Hennelly (Director, RDA Toolkit) and Judy Kuhagen (3R Project Consultant) shared a presentation that updated the group on the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project (3R Project). Their presentation is posted on the presentations page of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC) website.

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e-Book Acquisitions: e-Forum Summary

The e-forum discussion focused on a variety of topics related to issues of e-book acquisitions, such as: options for obtaining and providing access to e-books for academic libraries, lease vs. ownership, internal workflows, acquisition models, and usage statistics. There were sixty-three individual contributors to the discussion; fifty-nine from academic libraries; and fifteen from public, school, and special libraries. Noted here are the questions posed and summation of contributor responses.

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