Introducing RDA
Christine Oliver
The release of Resource Description and Access is not the release of a revised standard; it represents a total shift in the understanding of the whole cataloguing process. This shift from the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) to RDA will require a fundamental re-orientation in the way library staff, especially cataloguing staff, approach the function of describing resources and creating access to them. This special booklet will assist professionals with this transition.
The booklet guides the reader through the key topics and questions providing a concise explanation of RDA, its implementation and its expected benefits for users and cataloguers.
May 2010; 120pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-732-6; £29.95 (Special delegate price: £22.47)
Introduction to Resource Description and Access
Cataloguing and classification in the digital era
Shawne D Miksa
This new textbook introduces descriptive and subject cataloguing and classification as it is currently practised, and in particular introduces Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new set of cataloguing rules that replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). The new rules represent the response of the international cataloguing community to the current global information environment. Their principal goal is to facilitate resource discovery with library catalogues in a more consistent and powerful way than was possible with AACR, and this book is a guide to how to use them to achieve bibliographic control.
December 2010; 256pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-683-1; £44.95 (Special delegate price: £33.72)
Practical Cataloguing
AACR, RDA and MARC21
Anne Welsh and Sue Batley
The launch of Resource Description and Access (RDA) will transform cataloguing standards that have been virtually unchanged for 30 years. Existing standards, as laid out in the Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, have struggled to keep pace with new publishing formats and new publishing practices. RDA provides a more flexible framework for resource description and is likely to be adopted by the major cataloguing agencies. These developments in standards for bibliographic description follow on from the introduction of the MARC21 formats, adopted in the UK in 2004, but poorly covered in existing cataloguing textbooks.
As yet there is little help for cataloguers in the transition to RDA, and a new textbook is urgently needed to assist them in mapping the new standard onto the existing rules for description. This textbook, which builds on John Bowman's highly regarded Essential Cataloguing, will fill that gap. It features coverage of FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements of Authority Data), on which the new rules are built, and will also explore how RDA elements can be incorporated into MARC21.
August 2010; 224pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-695-4; £39.95 (Special delegate price: £29.97)
Information Resource Description
Creating and managing metadata
Philip Hider
This timely book employs the unifying mechanism of the semantic web and the resource description framework to integrate the various traditions and practices of information and knowledge organization. Uniquely, it covers both the domain-specific traditions and practices and the practices of the ‘metadata movement’ through a single lens – that of resource description in the broadest, semantic web sense.
This approach more readily accommodates coverage of the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, which aims to move library cataloguing into the centre of the semantic web. The work surrounding RDA looks set to revolutionise the field of information organization, and this book will bring both the standard and its model and concepts into focus.
July 2010; 288pp; hardback; 978-1-85604-667-1; £49.95 (Special delegate price: £37.47)
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