1. RDA in Action
Beth Thornton
Head, Serials Cataloging, University of Georgia
bethj@uga.edu
LYRASIS © 2011

2. In this class, you‟ll
• Recognize an RDA MARC record
• Identify the new MARC fields which have been
defined to accommodate RDA
• Recognize some of the prominent changes in
cataloging practice under RDA
• Understand the concept of core elements in
RDA
• Practice working with RDA copy
Objectives

3. Agenda
•Introduction
•Differences between RDA and AACR2
MARC records
–New fields
–Differences in practice
•Looking at some records
• Working with copy
•Practice

4. Resource Description and Access
• A new set of cataloging instructions that
will replace the Anglo American
Cataloging Rules 2nd ed., revised.
• Available through RDA Toolkit
–rdatoolkit.org
• Used in conjunction with LC PCC Policy
Statements (LC PCC PS)
RDA is…..

5. Interlude….quick MARC review
MAchine Readable Cataloging
245 1 0 $a MARC21 for everyone : $b a
practical guide / $c Deborah A. Fritz,
Richard J. Fritz.

6. What‟s a nice date like you
doing in a place like this?
264 #1 Oxford : $b
Archaeopress, $c 2012.

7. What‟s a nice date like you
doing in a place like this?
Title page verso:
Title page:
AACR2
260 ## Stanford, Calif. : $b
Stanford University Press, $c
c2013.
RDA
264 #1 Stanford, California : $b
Stanford Business Books, an
imprint of Stanford University
Press, $c [2013]
264 #4 $c ©2013

8. What‟s a nice date like you
doing in a place like this?
What do I do if there is no publication date, and the
copyright date is for next year?
LC PCC PS for 2.8.6.6:
If the copyright date is for the year following the year in
which the publication is received, supply a date of
publication that corresponds to the copyright date.
264 #1 ....... $c [2014?]
264 #4 $c ©2014
500 $a Resource available in 2013.

9. 264 quick quiz
264 #__ New York : $b St. Martins
Press, $c [2012]
264 #__ $c ©2012

10. 264 quick quiz
264 #__ Manchester ; $a New York : $b
Manchester University Press, $c [2012].
264 #__ $a New York, NY, USA : $b
Distributed in the United States
exclusively by Palgrave, MacMillan, $c
[2012]

11. 245 $h
336, 337, 338 replace the 245 $h....
336 ## $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 ## $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 ## $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier

12. Example: print
300 ## $a 417 pages ; $c 24 cm
336 ## text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 ## unmediated $b n $2 rdamedia
338 ## volume $b nc $2 rdacarrier

13. Example: DVD movie
300 ## $a 4 videodiscs (NTSC, 692 min.) : $b
DVD video, sound, color ; $c 12 cm.
336 ## two-dimensional moving image $b tdi $2
rdacontent
337 ## video $b v $2 rdamedia
338 ## videodisc $b vd $2 rdacarrier

14. Example: audio CD
300 ## $a 2 audio discs : $b digital, CD
audio ; $c 4 3/4 in.
336 ## $a performed music $b prm $2
rdacontent
337 ## $a audio $b s $2 rdamedia
338 ## $a audio disc $b sd $2 rdacarrier

15. Example: Playaway audio
300 ## ?
1 sound media player
1 pre-recorded MP3 player
1 pre-recorded digital audio player
1 Playaway
1 audio media player
1 digital media player
336 ## $a spoken word $b spw $2
rdacontent
337 ## $a unmediated $b n $2 rdamedia
338 ## $a other audio carrier $b sz $2
rdacarrier

16. Book
245 10 Breakfast at the red bruck house.
246 1# Breakfast at the red brick house
BUT (serial or integrating)
245 00 Directory of world environmental organizations.
246 1 # $i Issue for 1999 has title: $a Directory of wolrd
environmental organizations
And also for serials:
245 00 … newsletter.
Title appears as
1999 Newsletter.
differences, or, careful! It might
not be wrong……

18. No more Latin abbreviations!
(No more Latin at all)
S.l. “no location”  place of publication not
identified
s.n. “no name”  publisher not identified
Example
264 #1 $a [place of publication not identified] :
$b [publisher not identified], $c 2005.

19. Quick quiz
245 14 The Idea of Nature in Disney
Amination : $b From Snow White to WALL-E.

20. Quick quiz
250 ## 2nd ed.
or
250 ## Second Edition.

21. Quick quiz
264 #1 New York : $b St. Martin‟s Press, $c [date of
publication not identified]
or
264 #1 New York : $b St. Martin‟s Press, $c [2012]

22. Let‟s look at some records

23. 100 1# $a Munro, Alice, $d 1931- $e author
245 10 $a $a Lives of girls and women / $c Alice Munro.
250 ## $a Abridged / $b by Ruth Fraser.
264 #1 $a Fredericton, NB, Canada : $b BTC Audiobooks, an
imprint of Goose Lane Editions, $c [date of publication not
identified].
264 #4 $c ©2005
300 ## $a $a 3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr.) ; $c 12 cm
336 ## $a spoken word $b spw $2 rdacontent
337 ## $a audio $b s $2 rdamedia
337 ## $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 ## $a audio disc $b sd $2 rdacarrier
338 ## $a computer disc $b cd $2 rdacarrier
344 ## $a digital $b optical
347 ## $a audio file $b CD audio
23
Audio Book

24. 500 ## $a $a Abridgement of the first print edition published by
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971.
500 ## $a Originally broadcast on CBC Radio 1981.
508 ## $a Credits: producer, Lawrie Seligman; recording
engineer: Eric Wagers.
511 ## $a Narrated by Judy Mahbey.
520 ## $a $a Born on the backward “Flats Road,” Del Jordan
is a “nice girl” with big dreams in a small town that expects little
from women beyond marriage and babies. In linked short stories,
Del suffers embarrassment at the hands of her encyclopedia-
selling mother, endures her body‟s insistent desires, and falls
passionately in love with a young lumberyard worker, only to
lose her chance for a university scholarship.
24
Audio book (2)

25. 700 1# $a $a Fraser, Ruth, $e abridger.
700 1# $a $a Mahbey, Judy, $e narrator.
700 1# $a $a Seligman, Lawrie, $e producer.
700 1# $a Wagers, Eric, $e recording engineer.
25
Audio book (3)

26. Working with copy
• Take what you see
– Transcribed data will likely more closely resemble
what‟s on your piece
– Therefore, it will be easier to recognize a match
between your piece and a record
• Accept what you get
– RDA is flexible
– Catalogers judgment
– Institutional policy

27. Exercises
040 ## DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d TZT $d AUXAM $d ZCU $d
UPM $d WTU $d OCLCQ
020 ## 9782864326762
020 ## 2864326760
100 1# Meschonnic, Henri, $d 1932-2009, $e author.
245 10
rard Dessons.
264 #1 [Lagrasse] : $b Verdier, $c [2012]
264 #4 ©2012
300 ## 744 pages ; $c 22 cm
336 ## text $2 rdacontent
337 ## unmediated $2 rdamedia
338 ## volume $2 rdacarrier
504 ## Includes bibliographical references and index.

29. Questions?
„Think‟ by Regolare