This session contained a number of important nuggets of information that catalogers & managers will want to know:
- The release date of the final full draft of RDA is now October 2008 (not August).
- There will be 3 months for comments on this full draft, but comments will be limited to internal consistency problems and any new content (eg. the appendices).
- RDA will be first published only as an online product (no print version for now).
- The expected release date of the online RDA is March 2009.
- LC, in collaboration with a cross-section of US libraries, OCLC, and ILS vendors, will test RDA for 6 months after release in March.
- Therefore, the expected date of implementation for RDA is now early 2010.