Resource Description & Access (RDA)

Question asked on the Facebook Page of RDA Blog . Mike Selby  :  In the 260 or 264 Field, do states and provinces need to be completely spelled out (California) or still abbreviated (CA)? Answer: According to RDA Rule 2.8.2.3 for recording place of publication - Include both the local place name (city, town, etc.) and the name of the larger jurisdiction or jurisdictions (state, province, etc., and/or country) if present on the source of information. EXCERPT FROM THE RDA BLOG POST  Publication Data in a 260 Field : LC-PCC Best Practices Guidelines Myth: “I can continue to record the publication data in a 260 field.” Reality: Incorrect.  The 260 has been replaced with the 264 field, for original cataloging using RDA.  Remember, also, to properly code the second indicator according to the function of the entity recorded in this field. Myth: “I am not required to transcribe the larger jurisdiction for the place of publication....

"After discussions on the PCC list, and by participants at the PCC Operations Committee meeting and PCC-related meetings at ALA Annual, the policy for formulating a place name to be used in authority field 370 will now be to use the authorized form of the place.  This practice should make it easier for catalogers to supply data for this field and improve the potential for the data to be used in a linked environment.  It will no longer be necessary to re-formulate some place names to look the same as they would if they were being added as an addition to the access point in the 1XX. A revised DCM Z1 page for the 370 field, with examples, will be formally published in November-- a pre-publication version has been posted at:  http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/ rda/PCC%20RDA%20guidelines/ Z01%20370%202013nov.pdf  and  may be applied now .  Cataloger's are welcome to, but not required to, change the forms found on existing authority records. Loc...

RDA: Authorities II Family Names Corporate Names: Introduction and Attributes Corporate Names: Authorized Access Points Corporate Names: AACR2 and RDA Geographic Names Work/Expression NARs <<<<<---------->>>>> Names of Families Module 5 (10:13) Slides (PPT : 302 KB) Demonstration 5 A look at name authority records for family names. Demo (7:30) <<<<<---------->>>>> Identifying Corporate Bodies: Overview / Recording the Attributes [ Corporate Names: Introduction and Attributes] Module 6.a (27:23) Slides (PPT : 503 KB) Demonstration 6.a A look at several examples of RDA authority records for names of corporate bodies, concentrating on the attributes or identifying characteristics of the corporate body and how they are recorded in the authority record. Part 1 (22:33) Part 2 (15:12) Handout (Word : 121 KB) Quiz 6.a Test your knowledge and understanding of RD...

RDA Template for Place Name to be created in any Integrated Library Systems software 010 ‡ a 040 ‡ a XYZ  ‡ b eng  ‡ e rda   ‡ c ZYZ  043 ‡ a [gac] 046 ‡ s [start period] ‡ t [end period] 151 * ‡ a [place name] 368 ‡ b [type of jurisdiction] ‡ c [other designation] 370 ‡ c [associated country] ‡ f [other place] 670 ‡ a  781 0 ‡ z 010 and 040 may be changed based on the control number and cataloging agency Thanks all for your love, suggestions,  testimonials , likes, +1, tweets and shares .... See also related posts in following  RDA Blog  Categories (Labels):

LC-PCC PS for 1.7.1 General Guidelines on Transcription>>Access Points for Corporate Names, Including Meetings, in Name Authority and Bibliographic Records ( LC practice/PCC practice): 1. Quotation marks. If the form of name in the access point includes quotation marks around an element or elements of the name, retain them. Use double quotation marks in the access point instead of other forms of quotation marks. 2. Initials. If the form of name in the access point consists of or contains initials, regularize the spacing and put one space after an initial that is followed by a word or other element that is not an initial and no space after an initial that is followed by another initial consisting of one letter. EXAMPLE source F&H Denby authorized access point 110 2# $a F & H Denby EXAMPLE source U. S. D. A. Symposium … authorized access point 111 2# $a U.S.D.A. Symposium ... E...