Resource Description & Access (RDA)

RDA RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATORS RDA Appendices Chapter Title I RELATIONSHIP DESIGNATORS: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN A RESOURCE AND PERSONS, FAMILIES, AND CORPORATE BODIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESOURCE I.2 Relationship Designators for Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work I.2.1 Relationship Designators for Creators I.2.2 Relationship Designators for Other Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work I.3 Relationship Designators for Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with an Expression I.3.1 Relationship Designators for Contributors I.4 Relationship Designators for Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Manifestation I.4.1 Relationship Designators for Manufacturers I.4.2 Relationship Designators for Publishers I.4.3 Relationship Designators for Distributors I.5 Relationship Designators for Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with an Item I.5.1 Relationship Designators for Owners I.5.2 Re...

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...

RDA Toolkit Update, October 13, 2015 - Changes in Resource Description and Access (RDA) and Library of Congress - Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS) and RDA Toolkit A new release of the RDA Toolkit is published on Tuesday, October 13.  This message will cover several points you should be aware of related to the release.  Changes in RDA Content Change in Content in LC-PCC PSs Functional Changes in the RDA Toolkit Changes in RDA Content : Fast Track changes This includes changes to some instruction captions, but there is no actual change in practice.  There are a few new relationship designators for Appendix I , the term “ researcher ” may be one of broad interest. According to I.2.2  Relationship Designators for Other Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work:  Researcher: A person, family, or corporate body who does research in support of the creation of a work. Change in Content i...

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...