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Name/Title NAR (Name Authority Record) in RDA : Questions & Answers : RDA Examples

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QUESTION: I have to create a N/T NAR for selections of stories of an author, but the NAR for the author is established in AACR2. How to create N/T NAR in this case, can we establish N/T NAR straightaway in RDA? ANSWER: In order to create a Name/Title Name Authority Record (NAR) for a MARC21 240 tag in Resource Description & Access (RDA), the base  Name Authority Record (NAR) for the person has to be also in RDA first. If the base NAR for the person is in AACR2, then it should be converted to RDA. For example, please see lccn: 2012350684 Bibliographic Record 100 0_  | a   Jayabhikkhu,   | d   1908-1969,   | e   author. 240 10  | a   Children's stories.   | k   Selections 245 10  | a   Jayabhikkhunī śreshṭha bāḷavārtāo =   | b   Jaybhikhkhuni shreshtha balvartao /  | c   śreṇī-sampādako, Yaśavanta Mahetā, Śraddhā Trivedī. 246 31  | a ...

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) - MARC to RDA Mapping

MARC 21 FIELD TAG MARC 21 SUBFIELD CODE MARC 21 FIELD / SUBFIELD NAME RDA INSTRUCTION NUMBER RDA ELEMENT NAME 022 International Standard Serial Number 022 a International Standard Serial Number 2.15 Identifier for the Manifestation 022 l ISSN-L N/A 022 m Cancelled ISSN-L N/A 022 y Incorrect ISSN 2.15 Identifier for the Manifestation 022 z Cancelled ISSN 2.15 Identifier for the Manifestation [Source: RDA Toolkit] Thanks all for your love, suggestions,  testimonials , likes, +1, tweets and shares .... See also related posts in following  RDA Blog  Categories (Labels):

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Identifying RDA Records

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There are two indications that a record is an RDA bibliographic record: Leader/18 contains the value “i” (ISBD punctuation included)  Field 040 $e contains the code “rda” [Source: Library of Congress ]

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