RDA ESSENTIALS

• Main Author: Brenndorfer, Thomas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago American Library Association 2016
• Subjects: Resource description & access > Handbooks, manuals, etc; Descriptive cataloging > Standards > Handbooks, manuals, etc
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This concise guide to cataloguing with RDA: Resource Description and Access is essential for those seeking a simplified path to creating basic RDA records. In this quick reference source, author Thomas Brenndorfer describes the key RDA concepts and vocabulary and distils RDA instructions, matching t...

Table of Contents:

• SECTION 1: ELEMENTS 1. Identifying Manifestations and Items 2. Describing Carriers 3. Providing Acquisition and Access Information 4. Identifying Works and Expressions 5. Describing Content 6. Identifying Persons 7. Identifying Families 8. Identifying Corporate Bodies 9. Relationships between Entities 10. Relationships to Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated 11. Relationships between Works and Subjects 12. Relationships between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items 13. Relationships between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies SECTION 2: GUIDELINES 14. Transcription 15. Numbers Expressed as Numerals or as Words 16. Notes 17. Titles Associated with a Manifestation 18. Statements of Responsibility 19. Place of Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture 20. Name of Producer, Publisher, Distributor, and Manufacturer 21. Date of Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture 22. Titles of Works 23. Names of Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies 24. Dates Associated with Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies 25. Places SECTION 3: CONSTRUCTING ACCESS POINTS 26. Persons 27. Families 28. Corporate Bodies 29. Works 30. Expressions SECTION 4: OTHER ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS 31. Cases Involving Multiple Elements 32. Changes that Result in the Creation of a New Description