Resource Description and Access: It's Really Not So Bad

This article summarizes a presentation given March 15, 2013 at the 22nd Annual North Carolina Serials Conference by Wanda Gunther, Kurt Blythe and Kristina Spurgin. The authors first cover basic Resource Description and Access (RDA) (Joint Steering Committee for the Development of Resource Description and Access, 2012) concepts and implications for authority work. Changes that RDA would bring to the serial bibliographic record and implications for staff training and workflows are also discussed. RDA changes to the electronic integrating resource bibliographic record in addition to highlighting some issues to think about in regard to the display of RDA records in the online public access catalog (OPAC) are also reviewed.