Virtual User Group DiscussionPresented by

Troy LinkerPublisher, ALA Digital Reference

American Library Association

Online Discussion

Welcome to our virtual user group meeting.

Our goal is for this to be an interactive bidirectional discussion vs. a unidirectional presentation.

Your participation is vital to achieving this goal.

Attendee Panel

• Connect to Audio• IM a Question• Raise Your Hand

Audio Using Telephone

• During a session, select Use Telephone in the Audio pane of your Control Panel.

• Dial the conference call number provided.

• Enter the access code followed by the # key.

• Enter the Audio PIN followed by the # key

Audio Using Computer

• Select "Mic & Speakers" in the Audio pane of your Control Panel.

• Click Test. – Select a microphone

(headsets with a mic work best) from the drop-down

– Select speakers from the drop-down

– Meters will light up green when working properly

Raise Your Hand

To speak during the presentation• Click the button labeled “Raise

your hand“ found at the bottom of the attendee panel to be added to the queue.

• When it is your turn the moderator will turn on your audio and let you know you have the floor.

Session Agenda

• Recent enhancements (5 minutes)• Upcoming enhancements (5 minutes)• Planned developments (35 minutes)• Open discussion (10 minutes)– Development suggestions– Comments and questions

PDF of full agenda at http://www.rdatoolkit.org/virtualusergroup

Recent Enhancements

• Toggle paging on/off• RDA Update History• Core Element & Basic

Instruction filters• Improved Workflow

metadata

• Full record examples• Adjustable site

timeout options• Logout button• Search thesaurus

Upcoming Enhancements

• Add locally shared filters to Workflow

• Link icons in Workflow printouts

• Add 15 day warning for subscription expiration

• Update LCPS to PCC-LC PS

• Release RDA reworded chapters

Planned Developments

• RDA-94 - RDA rule number search• RDA-90 - Visual cue for instruction archive• RDA-96 - RDA display redesign• RDA-97 - Mobile application• RDA-99 - Addition of languages• RDA-98 - RDA data model

Comments and Questions

With the time we have left we will open the discussion up to your comments and questions about RDA Toolkit development

Thank You!

We hope you have found this virtual user group meeting useful. Shortly after the meeting you will receive an email with a link to a short online survey.

The survey results will be displayed online at rdatoolkit.org/virtualusergroup/meeting3

We appreciate any feedback you can give us!