LC RDA Implementation of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records
RDA RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATORS Library of Congress Implementation of Resource Description and Access Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records with MARC 21 RDA Cataloging Examples, Guidelines, and Best Practices Key points The training manual is only for relationship designators in bibliographic records. The requirement for providing relationship designators is only applicable to creators , whether coded in MARC 1XX or 7XX. Relationship designators for Person-Family-Corporate Body should not be used in a name/title access point tagged 7XX or 8XX, even if they are creators. If the nature of the relationship cannot be ascertained even at a general level, do not assign a relationship designator (if in doubt, leave it out). Other relationship designators are encouraged. The element name, e.g., “creator”, may be used as a relationship designator when you can’t determine a more appropriate relationship designator. The tr...