Update: Resource Description and Access (RDA), Changes to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)

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Written on Thursday, 06 October 2011

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been keeping track of the upcoming implementation of the new cataloging standards, Resource Description and Access (RDA). The RDA project page has been updated with new information about changes to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) as a result of RDA implementation at GPO and recent RDA cataloging activities. Read more here.

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