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RDA: Strategies for Implementation

by Magda El-Sherbini

A practical guide to implementing RDA

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A practical guide to implementing RDA

Magda El-Sherbini’s guide approaches RDA through the working decisions involved in cataloging, pairing its conceptual background and structure with practical and technical application. A detailed comparison with AACR2 helps place the newer standard alongside its predecessor. Topics include FRBR-driven tasks and FRAD principles, decisions about sources and required descriptive elements, and the relationships among works, expressions, manifestations, and items. Sample records ground the discussion in cataloging examples, while a section on the RDA Toolkit covers workflows, navigation, and searching techniques. The book is organized around the shift from understanding RDA’s framework to applying it to library materials and records.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Cataloging professionals preparing to implement or use RDA.
  • Library and information science students studying cataloging standards.
  • Catalogers seeking examples and guidance on the RDA Toolkit.

Themes

RDA implementationCataloging standards and AACR2FRBR and FRADBibliographic relationshipsRDA Toolkit workflows

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Book overview

"In this important book El-Sherbini tackles key questions about how the new cataloging standard will be implemented by cataloging professionals, offering an orientation in the conceptual background and the structure of RDA: Resource Description and Access from a practical and technical perspective, including a detailed comparison with AACR2. Firmly rooted in the concrete application of RDA, with numerous sample records, this book ◗◗ Covers FRBR-driven tasks, FRBR-Group relationships, and principles of FRAD, including how FRAD impacts the RDA application ◗◗ Analyzes the roles of manifestations and items, such as pre-cataloging decisions, preferred sources of information, and mandatory elements of description ◗◗ Discusses works and expressions for specific library materials, from methods of recording primary relationships to constructing the authorized access point and recording relationships ◗◗ Offers advice for using RDA Toolkit, with tips for efficient navigation in RDA Toolkit using workflows and searching techniques ◗◗ And much more"
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