RDA essentials / Thomas Brenndorfer.

Chicago : American Library Association, 2016.

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Resource description & access -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Descriptive cataloging -- Standards -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

1. Identifying manifestations and items

2. Describing carriers

3. Providing acquisition and access information

4. Identifying works and expressions

5. Describing content

6. Identifying persons

7. Identifying families

8. Identifying corporate bodies

9. Relationships between entities

10. Relationships to persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with a resource

11. Relationships between works and subjects

12. Relationships between works, expressions, manifestations, and items

13. Relationships between persons, families, and corporate bodies

14. Transcription

15. Numbers expressed as numerals or as words

16. Notes

17. Titles associated with a manifestation

18. Statements of responsibility

19. Place of production, publication, distribution, and manufacture

20. Name of producer, publisher, distributor, and manufacturer

21. Date of production, publication, distribution, and manufacture

22. Titles of works

23. Names of persons, families, and corporate bodies

24. Dates associated with persons, families, and corporate bodies

25. Places

26. Persons

27. Families

28. Corporate bodies

29. Works

30. Expressions

31. Cases involving multiple elements

32. Changes that result in the creation of a new description.

"This concise guide to cataloguing with RDA: Resource Description and Access is essential for those seeking a simplified path to creating basic RDA records. In this quick reference source, author Thomas Brenndorfer describes the key RDA concepts and vocabulary and distils RDA instructions, matching them to cataloguing practice in easy-to-follow language. Fully up-to-date with the latest revisions to RDA, this guide makes an excellent introduction while also serving as a bridge to more complex cataloguing."--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780838913284

xvi, 376 p. ; 28 cm