RDA Toolkit and Cataloger’s Desktop—Will there be a bundled price?
Subscriptions to the RDA Toolkit and Cataloger’s Desktop are independent of each other, with no package subscription available. You can access the RDA Toolkit through Cataloger’s Desktop, but they remain two separate products. RDA Toolkit subscriptions are processed by the American Library Association and Cataloger’s Desktop subscriptions are processed by the Library of Congress. If you subscribe to both products, you will be able to log into the RDA Toolkit from within Cataloger’s Desktop. Your method of access to the Toolkit via Cataloger’s Desktop will depend on how you choose to authenticate your RDA Toolkit subscription, whether by IP address or by username and password. Because Cataloger’s Desktop and RDA Toolkit are two entirely separate products, you don’t need to have the same number of concurrent users in each product. If you have 1 concurrent user for Cataloger’s Desktop, however, then only the one person at a time who is using Cataloger’s Desktop will be able to access the
