This presentation was presented as part of a panel on "The Benefits and Challenges of Allied Programs and Specializations in LIS Units" as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. This presentation discusses the rewards and challenges of Library and Information Science (LIS) programs, with a detailed overview of LIS programs offered at the University of North Texas.

This presentation discusses preparing school library media specialists for resource description and access (RDA). In particular, the authors present the basic Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) concepts and discuss them in the context of RDA implementation. The authors provide the correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats: monograph, electronic resource, AV, etc. Lastly, the authors discuss implementation options and vendor(s) interaction.