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From: Reser, Dave
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Subject: Informal Participation in the US National Library RDA Test

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Although the US National Library RDA Test Coordinating Committee announced the 26 formal test participant institutions last year (http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/test-partners.html), the Coordinating Committee is also interested in the experiences of other institutions that might be applying RDA in a test or production environment, including those only applying RDA during the open access period.

Institutions are encouraged to participate by:

Sending RDA bibliographic and/or authority records to the Library of Congress on a monthly basis for public posting on the RDA test website where they may be observed by other interested institutions, vendors, etc.

And/or,

Responding to a survey about their experiences creating RDA records.

Those interested in participating in this manner should contact lchelp4rda@loc.gov to register as an informal test participant.