JLIS.it 9, 1 (January 2018) ISSN: 2038-1026 online Open access article licensed under CC-BY DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-12436 RDA implementation in the URBE Network Stefano Bargioni(a) a) Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Roma, Italy __________ Contact: Stefano Bargioni,
[email protected]. Received: 10 October 2017; Accepted: 31 October 2017; First Published: 15 January 2018 __________ ABSTRACT URBE - Unione Romana Biblioteche Ecclesiastiche - is composed of 18 academic libraries and adopted RDA starting from March 2017. The process of the decision, the formation and training of cataloguers, and the modifications made to 4 different ILSs, as well as the goals URBE hopes to achieve thanks to RDA adoption, are presented. Also, the adoption of the RDA Toolkit, and the problems related to local variants, currently examined in collaboration with the Vatican Library, are discussed. KEYWORDS EURIG; RDA; URBE CITATION Bargioni, S. “RDA implementation in the URBE Network”. JLIS.it 9, 1 (January 2018): 44-47. doi:10.4403/jlis.it-12436. __________ © 2018, The Author(s). This is an open access article, free of all copyright, that anyone can freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts or use them for any other lawful purpose. This article is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. JLIS.it is published by the University of Florence, SAGAS Department. JLIS.it 9, 1 (January 2017) ISSN: 2038-1026 online Open access article licensed under CC-BY DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-12436 Thank you very much to the organizers for inviting the URBE Network to this meeting, and give us the possibility to share valuable experience with European colleagues.