I felt I needed to take some time out tonight to reflect on the topic - 505 that I am doing at the moment. I handed my assignment in early as I had to go to Bangkok (a promise to my son and his girlfriend that I wanted to keep)so I have had the weekend to 'chill out', tonight I will be catching up on my sleep and tomorrow I will be launching myself into the exercises necessary for the next part of the course. RDA was really interesting, I loved reading about it and comparing it to AACR2. However, I struggled to understand the whole concept of FRAD and FRBR. Maybe when I get to work with it I will be able to come to grips with it better. Also I need to remember it takes time to assimilate all this information before you can apply it. Learning how to create subject headings using SCIS was great! I am a long way off being an independent cataloguer, but I worked really hard. I didn't worry about the hierarchy of the headings as Anne (Lecturer) said it wasn't necessary, but it was really interesting to see how subject headings could be established. I have no idea of how I will go but I was really happy with what I had done. I am learning to recognise that I can't expect myself to be an expert at everything I am learning. It is a gradual process and to be a good cataloguer will take time. However, I do feel I have established a good solid foundation on which to build. I was a bit nervous about how to reference the ETL 505 2A assignment. It wasn't like other assignments, I wasn't researching information. I did the best I could to work it out, and I really hope I have referenced it correctly. Time to go -only 5 hours sleep last night between getting home from the airport and getting up to work,so I am exhausted!