Learning rda in 30 minutes or less

Learning RDAIn 30 Minutes or Less

Teressa Keenan - Mansfield Library Cataloging Team Meeting – April 24, 2012

Why now? LC implementation March 2013 ML implementation April 2013 35,000+ RDA records (OCLC) 297 RDA records

What is RDA? Resource Description & Access Cataloging Standard Designed for

digital world responsiveness to user needs extensibility adaptability

How does this affect practice? Core level Accept existing records Correct major errors & omissions No hybrid records

Identifying RDA records 040 $e rda Presence of new RDA elements in the

record Bibliographic records: “Desc” fixed field

= i (vs. “a” for AACR2) Authority records: “Rules” fixed field =

“z” (vs. “c” for AACR2)

RDA Example

AACR2 or RDA?

AACR2 or RDA?

AACR2 or RDA?

New Elements Relationship terms

100 1 $a Card, Orson Scott, $e author. 700 1 $a Bury, Florence, $e translator.

Content type 336 $a text $2 rdacontent 336 $a performed music $2 rdacontent

Media type 337 $a unmediated $2 rdamedia 337 $a audio $2 rdamedia

Carrier type 338 $a volume $2 rdacarrier 338 $a audio disc $2 rdacarrier

New Practices[corrected text] or [sic]

Abbreviations

Rule of 3

GMD

Dates

Resources RDA LibGuide

http://libguides.lib.umt.edu/RDA Colleagues RDA Toolkit

http://desktop.loc.gov

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/

OCLC Connexion

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