<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>HI Elhanan,<br></div><div>This is very exciting. I eagerly look forward to seeing your materials and joining the listserv. We hope to also complete the draft version of the RDA update to Paul Maher's Hebraica Cataloging by the beginning of June.<br></div><div>Sincerely, HEidi<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Elhanan Adler" <elhanana@savion.huji.ac.il><br><b>To: </b>"Hebrew Name Authority Funnel" <heb-naco@lists.service.ohio-state.edu><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:45:26 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Heb-NACO] RDA in Israel<br><div><br></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Shalom all</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">a few items which you may find of interest:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">The Israeli academic libraries will begin full-RDA original cataloging soon and you should be seeing Israeli RDA records in Worldcat around May or June.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">The Israeli inter-university cataloging committee has just opened a listserv on implementation of RDA in Israel. If anyone would like to join, sign up at:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><a href="http://listserv.tau.ac.il/cgi-bin/wa?A0=IL-LIBRARIES-RDA" target="_blank">http://listserv.tau.ac.il/cgi-bin/wa?A0=IL-LIBRARIES-RDA</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Rochelle Kedar (Bar-Ilan U.) and I are writing a new book "Omanut ha-kitlug" (the art of cataloging) which is based on RDA and Israeli best-practices as decided by the universities
cataloging committee. It is an open-access e-book. The book is a work in progress and not all chapters are complete but you are welcome to view it at:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><a href="http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/Hebrew/infochannels/librarians/Cataloging_Art/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/Hebrew/infochannels/librarians/Cataloging_Art/Pages/default.aspx</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">The site of the Inter-University Cataloging Committee contains many materials relating to RDA in Israel:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Riny Goldsmith and I plan to be at the AJL conference in June and will be glad to discuss RDA developments.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Best wishes</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Email: elhanana@savion.huji.ac.il</span></p>
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<br>_______________________________________________<br>Heb-naco mailing list<br>Heb-naco@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/heb-naco<br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span>Heidi G. Lerner<br>Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica<br>Metadata Development Unit<br>Stanford University Libraries<br>Stanford, CA 94305-6004<br>e-mail: lerner@stanford.edu<br>ph: 650-725-9953<br>fax: 650-725-1120<br><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>