Pru Mitchell, SCIS Manager

RDA BACKGROUND

5 February 2014

Introduction for school library staff

Outline

1. Why a new cataloguing standard?

2. The implication of changes for schools

3. RDA in school systems

4. The concepts underpinning RDA

5. Questions

Why standards?

Menkov, Vladimir 2008 'Wallaroo dual gauge railway', Wikimedia

Commons, Licensed CC-by-sa

Interoperability

consistency – comprehensivity federation – migration - translation

Tabletop, 2009 ‘Triple Gauge in Australia’‘Wikimedia Commons, Licensed CC-by-sa

Metadata standards

SCIS 2014 ‘Barcode mat‘ Flickr, Licensed CC-by-nc

What is RDA?

History of RDA

Late 1990s – future of AACR2?2004 – AACR3 draft2005 – Decision to develop RDA2010 – RDA published2010/11 – RDA testing2013 – RDA implementation

What’s wrong with AACR2?

new and shiny in 1978

intended for card catalogues

intended to be read by humans

organised by format of resources

not web-friendly

What will RDA change?Cataloguing element Changed

2013Notes

Description (AACR2) RDA SCIS 1 July 2013Stage 2 2014

ISBDPunctuatio

nSome changes, not all RDA

Classification (Dewey) XSubject authorities (SCIS) X Future work for RDA

Name authorities (SCIS) X SCIS standards not

changing

MARC21New RDA

fieldsBibframe in conceptual

stage

Library system/OPAC ? Check with/test your system

Example record

ISBN 9780734412249

TitleTom the outback mailman / written by Kristin Weidenbach ; illustrated by Timothy Ide

Main author

Weidenbach , Kristin

Contributors

Ide, Timothy

Publisher Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2013

Description 32 p. : col. ill.

Subjects

Postal services – Australia - Biography. scisshlOutback life - Biography. scisshlAustralian stories. scisshl Birdsville Track (S. Aust. and Qld.) scisshl Rural areas. scotBiographies. scot

Call nos.383 KRU a15383.492 KRU 23

Image used by permission

Key differences from AACR2

100 1 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616,$e author245 10 $a Romeo and Juliet /$c by William Shakespeare.250 $a Green room edition.264 1 $a New York ; $a Boston :$b H.M. Caldwell Company,$c

[1900]264 4 $c ©1900300 $a 1 online resource.336 $a text $2 rdacontent337 $a computer $2 rdamedia338 $a online resource $2 rdacarrier

RDA Core elements

Updated for RDAMay-June 2013

Further transitionJuly 2014

esa.edu.au/scis/help.html

Institutional policy on core elements

activity cardart original art reproduction

braille chart diorama electronic resourcefilmstrip flash card game globe kitmanuscript

mapmicroformmicroscope slidemodelmotion picturemusicpicturerealiaslidesound recordingtechnical drawingtoytransparencyvideorecording

Grappling with the GMD

The castle

[videorecording]

Tech tools [kit]Romeo and Juliet [electronic resource]

RDA provides better coverage of resource types

BooksDatabasesWebsites

ImagesMusic

PDFs

Videos Blogs

PodcastsBrochures

Flip charts

Online

From Renate Beilharz SCIS Asks 2012

Content, Media, Carrier types

Material Content type Media type Carrier type

book with text and pictures

text; still image unmediated volume

digital photograph

still image computer computer disc?online resource?

sheet music notated music unmediated volume

globe cartographic three-dimensional form

unmediated object

audio book spoken word audio audio disc?online resource?

RDA toolkit text computer online resource

Types

336 Content Typehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd336.html

337 Media Typehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd337.html

338 Carrier Typehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd338.html

Descriptors to be taken from the RDA controlled

lists

Coding Content, Media, Carrier types

245 04 $a The castle300 ## $a 1 DVD

336 # # $a two-dimensional moving image $2 rdacontent

337 # # $a video $2 rdamedia

338 # # $a videodisc $2 rdacarrier

www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/index.html

Phasing out the GMD

SCIS will phase out GMD in records (July 2014)

Library systems may

strip the GMD

map media type to GMD

use collection types

Mapping GMD?

Access points /

Uniform titles

SCIS has made global change

Delivered in SCIS Authority Files release 1,

2014

Redgrave, George 2013 ‘Bible Bookmark‘ Licensed CC-by-nd

Parts of the Bible

Qur’an (from Koran)

Parts of the Bible

Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff

New MARC field for publication information

264 Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice

www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd264.html

Example:264 #1 $a New York ;$a Boston :$b H.M. Caldwell

Company, $c [1900]264 #4 $c ©1900

SCIS will delay using 264 until library systems are ready

Abbreviations and field lengths

SCIS follows RDA guideline that bibliographic information is to be recorded

without abbreviations unless they appear on the item

250 $a Second edition260 $a Washington, District of Columbia300 $a 44 pages : $b colour illustrations

Library systems may need to allow for an increased number of characters in some fields

What will RDA look like?

in cataloguing module

in MARC view

in SCIS Catalogue

in school library systems

in the ideal world

SCIS RDA test records

SCIS no Title Tests

1607780 The call of the wild / online audiobook with multiple 007

1588970 Desire / sound recording on CD

1588961 Eraserhead / video recording on DVD

1585707 Saint Paul's letters to the Corinthians in the Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate /

book

1581096 100 healthy desserts : delicious recipes for healthy living /

e-book

scis.edublogs.org/tag/rda/

SCIS cataloguing module

What does RDA look like in MARC view?

What does RDA look like in SCIS OPAC?

Full item record in

SCIS OPAC

What does RDA look like in your OPAC?

RDA toolkit

rdatoolkit.org

Screen image from the RDA Toolkit used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library

Association and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)

RDA options

• RDA Toolkit http://www.rdatoolkit.org• Cataloger’s Desktop (Library of

Congress) http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop• Print version (Facet Publishing UK)

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk

SCIS implementation

SCIS started cataloguing with RDA on 1 July 2013but will retain GMD while systems change

There is no plan for retrospective change of existing records (except parts of Bible and Qur’an)

Library systems will manage both AACR2 and RDA records

• RDA emphasises the importance of relationships

• RDA adds precision to access points

• RDA provides greater internationalisation

• RDA builds a display of results that conveys meaningful information to the user

Getting data out of the library

Acknowledgements

Leonie Bourke, SCIS RDA consultantRenate Beilharz and Judy O’Connell presentation

slides used at the SCIS asks consultation in December 2012

National Library of Australia training materialsRDA logos used by permission of the Co-Publishers

for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)

Screen images from the RDA Toolkit www.rdatoolkit.org used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA

Questions, discussion and resources

Training• SCIS professional learning programme

www.esa.edu.au/scis/professional_learning.html• RDA training page National Library of Australia

www.nla.gov.au/acoc/training-courses-and-seminars-in-australia

Further resources• SCIS blog posts tagged RDA

scis.edublogs.org/tag/rda• Australian RDA information and training materials

www.nla.gov.au/acoc/resource-description-and-access-rda-in-australia

• Labore, L 2012, RDA for the non-catalogerwww.library.illinois.edu/cam/rda/files/RDA_for_the_Non-Cataloger.pdf

pru.mitchell@esa.edu.au