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RDA for everyone else

RDA for everyone else. Resource Description and Access. What is it?. Resource Description and Access Successor to AACR2 – NOT AACR3 New cataloguing rules/guidelines. Why do we need it?. AACR2 has lasted very well but … Based on card catalogues

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RDA for everyone else

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  1. RDA for everyone else Resource Description and Access

  2. What is it? • Resource Description and Access • Successor to AACR2 – NOT AACR3 • New cataloguing rules/guidelines

  3. Why do we need it? • AACR2 has lasted very well but … • Based on card catalogues • Blends requirements for description and display • Multiple versions or formats are hard to distinguish • E-resources are difficult

  4. What’s different about RDA? • Covers content only • Not coding of content (ISBD, MARC) • Not display of content (Library system) • Based on FRBR and FRAD • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records • Functional Requirements for Authority Data

  5. More differences • Clearly distinguishes content and carriers of content • Designed as an online tool

  6. RDA Goals • RDA as a standard • Cover all types of resources and all types of content • Be usable outside the library community • RDA data • Support user tasks (Find Identify Select Obtain) • Be compatible with existing library catalogues • Independent of encoding formats

  7. When will we get it? • What’s happened so far • 1997 – conference on cataloguing principles • 2004 – AACR3 draft • 2005 – change name to RDA – draft • 2006 – more drafts • 2007 – new structure for RDA and 1 more draft

  8. What’s happening next • October 2008 – release of final draft as online prototype • Jan 2009 end of review period for final draft • Later in 2009? publication

  9. What difference will it make? • Better displays • Clearer data • More choices for encoding data • Greater flexibility in moving forward

  10. Current view Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones Rearsby : W.F. Howes, 2008 Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2006 Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones Toronto : AA Knopf Canada, [2007] Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones New York, N.Y. : Dial Press, 2007 Mister Pip [sound recording] / Lloyd Jones Bristol : Chivers, 2008. Monsieur Pip / par Lloyd Jones Paris : J. Losfeld, 2008

  11. Future view? Title: Jones, Lloyd. Mr Pip Format: Text -- English Text -- French Audiobook -- English Publications: Text – English Penguin Books, 2006 A.A. Knopf., 2007 Dial Press, 2007 W.F. Howes, 2008 …

  12. What can I do? • Ask your system vendor what they’re planning re RDA • Watch the RDA website for information about releases

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