Knight, F. Tim2011-02-072011-02-072011Canadian Law Library Review, v. 36 no. 1, p. 8-12Canadian Law Library Review, v. 36 no. 1, p. 8-121180-176Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/6717The new cataloguing guidelines Resource Description and Access (RDA) have recently been released and are set to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. An evaluation period led by the Library of Congress is currently underway and it is likely that the implementation of RDA will begin sometime in mid-2011. This paper looks briefly at the origins of RDA, provides a high level overview of RDA and reviews some of the major differences that cataloguers and library users can expect to find between RDA and AACR2.encataloguing, RDA, AACRArticle