AACR2 to RDA Basic and specific changes

What is RDA?

• Resource Description and Access

• New cataloging standard replacing AACR2

• Based on FRBR (Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) concept models

Fitting RDA into MARC • Concern and confusion

• RDA not an encoding standard

• RDA say a lot about what information to record

• A little about how to record it

• Nothing at all about where or how to encode it

• May contain in its fields data referring to the work, expression, manifestation and item of a particular resource

Is RDA available now and are catalogers using it?

• Widely disseminated in various drafts

• Most catalogers familiar with some concepts

How will RDA impact my library?

• Available in electronic form

• Every cataloger will have to be trained

• Catalogers to recognize common differences between AACR2 and RDA, including LC Core Elements

• Recognize RDA authority records and/or authorized access points

Specific changes • Fixed fields

RDA – “I” in DESC (Leader/18)

AACR2 – “a”

• 040 Field

RDA MARC records will note “rda” under subfield s“$e”

Example: YSM $e rda $c YSM

• No more “rule of three”

All authors to be noted in 245 field

Author with primary responsibility noted in 1xx field

All others given added entry

Specific changes (cont'd) Examples

AACR2:

245 00 $a RDA training handbook / Daniel Kinney … [et al.].

700 1_ $a Kinney, Daniel.

RDA:

100 1_ $a Kinney, Daniel, $e author.

245 10 $a RDA training handbook / Daniel Kinney, Karen D’Angelo, Bushra Butt, David Bolotine, Nancy Verderosa.

700 1_ $a D’Angelo, Karen, $e author.

700 1_ $a Butt, Bushra, $e author.

700 1_ $a Bolotine, David, $e author.

700 1_ $a Verderosa, Nancy, $e author.

Specific changes (cont’d) Uniform title

• Uniform title, which goes in the 240 field (or 130 field if it is the authorized access point), is now called the “preferred title.”

• When one work is published simultaneously in two languages, the preferred title is that of the first book received, not of the book published in the United States

• When a new edition of a resource is made with revised content and a new title proper, the “preferred title” in the 240 will remain that of the first edition.

Specific changes (cont’d) Uniform title (cont’d)

• If two different languages of a work are represented within the same resource (for example, a dual-language translation), you should skip the 240 field (i.e., no more “Polyglot” or “French & Spanish” in the “$l” subfield) and put the preferred titles, with the “$l” language subfield, in the 700 fields for each language expression.

Example:

The Old Testament : ǂb its formation and development.

AACR2 would have it:

100 1 Weiser, Artur, ǂd 1893-1978.

240 10 Einleitung in das Alte Testament. ǂl English

245 10 The Old Testament : ǂb its formation and development. / ǂc [translated by Dorothea M. Barton].

Specific changes (cont’d) Uniform title (cont’d)

RDA would have it:

245 10 The Old Testament : ǂb its formation and development. / ǂc [translated by Dorothea M. Barton].

700 1 Weiser, Artur, ǂd 1893-1978. ǂt Old Testament : ǂb its formation and development. ǂl German.

Specific changes (cont’d) Uniform title (cont’d)

“Selections” can no longer be used alone in a preferred title; it needs to be used with “Works.”

Example: A compilation of three or more works by Mark Twain, for example, would be coded in this way:

240 10 $a Works. $k Selections. $f 2001

245 10 $a Two novels and favorite essays / $c Mark Twain.

AACR2 would have left out the “Works.”

Specific changes (cont’d) Uniform title (cont’d)

However, “Poems. Selections” would still be appropriate in RDA.

Example:

100 1 Crane, Stephen, ǂd 1871-1900, ǂe author

240 10 Poems. ǂk Selection

245 14 The poetry of Stephen Crane.

Specific changes (cont’d) Bias towards transcription

RDA mantra – “take what you see”

Information from the preferred source should be transcribed

If the title page reads “Second revised edition,”

AACR2 would have this:

250 2nd rev. Ed.

RDA would have this:

250 Second revised edition

If title page says “2nd rev. ed.” RDA instructs us to record it as is

Truncation of names of publishers no longer used in RDA

Specific changes (cont’d) Incorrect information

Catalogers not correct incorrect information

Obvious misspellings in the title are corrected in the 246 field

Example:

Title page says:

Bleus like showers of rain

AACR2 would have it as:

245 ## Bleus like showers of rain [i.e.] Blues like showers of rain

or

245 Bleus like showers of rain [sic]

Specific changes (cont’d) Incorrect information (cont’d)

RDA would have this:

245 ## Bleus like showers of rain

246 ## Corrected title: $a Blues like showers of rain

Specific changes (cont’d) Abbreviations

RDA does not use Latin words or abbreviations

Lack of abbreviations mean a different look

Examples:

AACR2: s.l. (sine loco)

s.n. (sine nomine)

sic, ca., and et al.

RDA: for s.l. – [Place of publication not identified]

for s.n – [Publisher not identified]

(Catalogers to supply probable date and place of publication, taken from outside the resource if necessary)

Specific changes (cont’d) Different look

Examples: Names:

Smith, John, approximately 1940-2001

Smith, John, born 1940- (instead of b. 1940-)

Smith, John, died 2001 (instead of d. 2001)

Examples: 300 Field:

AACR2 – 300 ## $a 86, [21] p. :$b ill., 1 folded map ;$c 24 cm.

RDA -- 300 ## $a 86 pages, 21 unnumbered pages :$b illustrations, 1 folded map ;$c 24 cm

Abbreviation permitted when the preferred source of information has them. Allowed abbreviations include “cm”(without a period), “min.” and “sec.” for DVD/CD

Specific changes (cont’d) Preferred sources

“Chief source” is now “preferred sources”

RDA permits to seek information from broader range of sources

Information taken from outside the resource should be enclosed in brackets.

Specific changes (cont’d) Imprint

260 field replaced by 264 field

Examples:

264 #1 North Vancouver, BC :$b The Bowler Press, $c 2008.

264 #4 $c ©2008

Second indicator 4 means that the date is a copyright date.

The symbol ©) should be used instead of “c.”

If only the copyright date listed, and it is reasonable to assume that the publication date is the same, then the publication date should be put in brackets.

RDA has an international focus, so the first listed place of publication is recorded where more than one are listed. A place found in the catalog’s “home country” should not be recorded

Other changes 336, 337, 338 fields

RDA not using GMD (General Material Designations)

336 (content type), 337 (media type), and 338 (carrier type) fields to be used for all print and non-print materials.

336: Content type

336: Media type

337: Carrier type

Example 1 (Books):

336 $a text $2 rdacontent

337 $a unmediated $2 rdamedia

338 $a volume $2 rdacarrier

Other changes (cont’d) 336, 337, 338 fields (cont’d)

Example 2 (video-recordings):

336 $a two-dimensional moving image $b tdi $2 rdacontent

337 $a video $b v $2 rdamedia

338 $a videodisc $b vd $2 rdacarrier

Example 3 (E-books):

336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent

337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia

338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier

Other changes (cont’d) Relationship designators

RDA now requires relationship designators.

Relationship designators go in subfield $e for name entities (except when attached to the 111 and 711 [meeting names] fields, they go in subfield $j)

Example:

100 1# Smith, Ed, $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 This old book / $c by Ed Smith 700 1# Wang, Albert, $e translator. 700 1# Brown, Leslie, $d 1981-, $e illustrator. 700 1# Jones, Linda $d 1965- $e editor. 700 1# Simmons, Frank $d 1945- $e editor.

Other changes (cont’d) Relationship designators (cont’d)

Two or more titles by the same author in one volume:

Example:

100 1# $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616. 245 10 $a Hamlet ; $b King Lear / $c William Shakespeare. 700 12 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616. $t Hamlet. 700 12 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616. $t King Lear.

Other changes (cont’d) Relationship designators (cont’d)

All personal name entries now specifically “relate” to the title in the 245 field. A film will have them as follows:

700 1# Hecht, Ben, $d 1893-1964, $e screenwriter, $e director, $e producer. 710 2# Miramax Films, $e production company. 710 2# Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm), $e production company.

Adaptation example:

AACR2: 500 $a Based on the novel by Jane Austen. 700 1# $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775‐1817. $t Pride and prejudice

RDA: 700 1# $i motion picture adaptation of (work) $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817. $t Pride and prejudice