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...

Question: Which title to choose as the Title Proper if the title statement of a polyglot monograph appears in multiple languages, according to Resource Description & Access ( RDA ) Cataloging  Rules?  [Question asked on the Google+ Community RDA Cataloging , a companion Google+ Community for RDA Blog .]  Answer: According to RDA Rule 2.3.2.4 if the content of the resource is written, spoken, or sung  and the source of information for the title proper has a title in more than one language or script then  choose as the title proper the title in the language or script of the main content of the resource . This rule further prescribes that,  If the content of the resource is not written, spoken, or sung, or if there is no main content in a single language then the cataloger should choose the title proper on the basis of the sequence, layout, or typography of the titles on the source of information. All the li...

246 - Varying Form of Title (R) FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE Varying forms of the title appearing on different parts of an item or a portion of the title proper, or an alternative form of the title when the form differs substantially from the title statement in field 245 and if they contribute to the further identification of the item. For items including several works but lacking a collective title, field 246 is used only for titles related to the title selected as the title proper, usually the first work named in the chief source of information. Titles related to other works are recorded in field 740 (Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title) or one of the other 7XX (Added Entry) fields. When displayed/printed as a note, varying forms of titles are usually preceded by an introductory term or phrase that is generated as a display constant based on the second indicator value. First Indicator Second Indicator Note/added entry controller 0 - Not...

Contents: Title Proper         Title Proper Transcription Parallel Title Proper Other Title Information Variant Titles Earlier Title Proper and Later Title Proper Statement of Responsibility        “Rule of Three” -- Change from AACR2!           More Than One Statement of Responsibility <<<<<---------->>>>> Title Proper Ø          Title proper is a CORE ELEMENT Title proper is the chief name of a resource.  It is the focus for identifying the preferred source of information.  An alternative title is treated as part of the title proper.  The title proper excludes any parallel titles proper, other title information, and parallel other title information.  This data is recorded in MARC field 245 $a $n $p P          Look at instruction 2.3.2 Sourc...

MARC 21 FIELD TAG MARC 21 SUBFIELD CODE MARC 21 FIELD / SUBFIELD NAME RDA INSTRUCTION NUMBER RDA ELEMENT NAME 245 Title statement 245 a Title 2.3.2 Title Proper 245 b Remainder of title 2.3.3 Parallel Title Proper 245 b Remainder of title 2.3.4 Other Title Information 245 b Remainder of title 2.3.5 Parallel Other Title Information 245 c Statement of responsibility, etc. 2.4.2 Statement of Responsibility Relating to Title Proper 245 c Statement of responsibility, etc. 2.4.3 Parallel Statement of Responsibility Relating to Title Proper 245 c Statement of responsibility, etc. 2.3.2 Title Proper 245 c Statement of responsibility, etc. 2.3.3 Parallel Title Proper 245 c Statement of responsibility, etc. 2.3.4 Other Title Information 245 c Statement of responsibility, etc. 2.3.5 Parallel Other Title Information 245 f Inclusive dates N/A 245 g Bulk dates N/A 245 h Medium N/A 245 k Form 3.9.2 Production Method for Manuscript 245 k Form 7.2 Nature of the Content 245 n N...