Resource Description & Access (RDA)

This was the fourth year of RDA Blog  on Resource Description and Access ( RDA ).  We hope that our posts have been both interesting and helpful to all librarians and catalogers. As 2015 comes to a close, I want to share our most read articles of the year. Top 10 RDA Blog Posts of 2015   RDA Cataloging Rules for Pseudonyms with MARC 21 Examples International Standard Book Number (ISBN) - MARC to RDA Mapping RDA Cataloging Examples Articles, Books, Presentations on Resource Description and Access (RDA) Establishing Certain Entities in the Name or Subject Authority File : RDA Cataloging Libhub Initiative Corrected Titles Proper & Variant Titles : RDA vs AACR2 : Questions and Answers & Best Practices RDA Bibliography LC RDA Implementation of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records 33X fields do not necessarily mean RDA Thank you for reading  RDA Blog  on  Resource Description and Access  ( RDA )! Happy New Y...

Publisher's Name in  Resource Description and Access  ( RDA ) &  Anglo-American Cataloging Rules  ( AACR2 ) with  MARC 21 Examples Table of Contents: Core Element How is Publisher's Name is defined Where are Rules for Publisher's Name in RDA What are the Sources of Information for Publisher's Name in RDA How is Publisher's Name Transcribed / Recorded in Resource Description and Access (RDA) More than One Publisher in Resource Description and Access (RDA) Publisher's Name in More Than One Language or Script No Publisher Identified in Resource Description and Access (RDA) MARC 21 Field 264 RDA Examples of Recording Publisher's Name in MARC 21 Field 264 CORE ELEMENT: Publisher's Name is a Core Element;   if more than one publisher’s name appears on the source of information, only the first recorded is required. How is Publisher's Name is defined :  According to the  Glossary of Library and Information Science  of...

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) : Assigning and Constructing http://librarianshipstudies.blogspot.com/2015/12/library-of-congress-subject-headings.html New Post on  Librarianship Studies & Information Technology  Blog provides a comprehensive and most up-to-date description of  Assigning and Constructing Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)  : Principles, Practices, and Examples From  Subject Headings Manual (SHM)  Instruction Sheet H 180  (Visit above link to read complete article ... ... ...) BACKGROUND:  This instruction sheet contains general practices followed by the Library of Congress for assigning subject headings to individual works being cataloged and for constructing subject heading strings in the Library of Congress subject heading system. This instruction sheet begins after the initial steps of subject analysis have taken place, that is, after an examination of the item to determine its s...

Subject Headings Manual : Glossary of Library & Information Science http://librarianshipstudies.blogspot.com/2015/11/subject-headings-manual.html New Post on  Librarianship Studies & Information Technology  Blog provides a comprehensive and most up-to-date description of  Subject Headings Manual (SHM) Subject Headings Manual (SHM)  provides guidelines to use  Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) . The manual was originally conceived as an in-house procedure manual to aid subject catalogers at the Library of Congress in constructing and assigning  Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)  in an accurate and consistent manner.  SHM  includes explanations of subject cataloging policy, procedures, and practices for the catalogers at Library of Congress in providing  LCSH  subject headings to bibliographic records and constructing new headings to be included in  LCSH . Other libraries who wish to cat...