Resource Description and Access: 2014 Update

Resource Description and Access: 2014 Update Christee PascaleAssociate Head, Acquisitions & DiscoveryNorth Carolina State University Librariescpascal@ncsu.eduNorth Carolina Serials ConferenceMarch 14, 2014Chapel Hill, NC

Metadata at NCSU • ~5% of NCSU MARC cataloging is original • Much of that is new editions and/or electronic derived from print • MLS holding librarians do (next to) no cataloging • Support staff perform all copy AND original cataloging (MARC and non-MARC)

RDA Training at NCSU Who, When … What … FRBR Training 1 hour session prior to RDA Core Training RDA Core Training 12 total hours over 3 days Breakout Groups Small groups (~6 people) Met 1/week for 4-6 weeks Hands-on record creation • Developed in-house by NSCU staff • Delivered to all cataloging department staff • September 2010

Lessons Learned • FRBR, FRBR, FRBR with a side of FRAD & FRSAD • Teaching RDA from AACR2 • Access points and relationships • Tailor training • Develop local policy and practice; ready documentation • Give yourself permission to ask questions, make mistakes and learn

RDA News & Update

News Roundup • PCC announces BIBCO & CONSER AACR2 end of life as December 31, 2014 • RDA Rewording Project Complete • New books • Jones, Ed. RDA and Serials Cataloging. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2013. Print. • Maxwell, Robert L. Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA. Chicago, ALA Editions, 2013. Print.

OCLC RDA Policy Statement • Effective March 31, 2013 • Original records may be coded RDA, AACR2 or any other recognized cataloging code • Upgrading/enhancing records • May change/upgrade master records cataloged according to a non-RDA code to RDA • Do not change an RDA master record to conform to an earlier cataloging code

OCLC RDA Policy Statement – Hybrid Records • May add some RDA elements to existing non-RDA records without re-cataloging the entire record according to RDA: • Adding relator terms to access points • Spelling out non-transcribed abbreviations • Adding complete statements of responsibility in 245 (in place of "[et al.]") • Adding 336/337/338 fields • Apply PCC Guidelines on Hybrid Records document: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/PCC%20RDA%20guidelines/Post-RDA-Implementation-Guidelines.html

OCLC RDA Policy Statement – GMD & Legacy Records • General Material Designators (GMDs) • OCLC will retain the 245 ‡h GMD in WorldCat records where it currently exists through March 2016 • Changes to WorldCat legacy Records: • Adding 336, 337, 338 fields • Spelling out non-transcribed abbreviations in 255, 300, 500, 504 and other fields • Converting Latin abbreviations to English equivalents in 245, 260, and other fields • Converting dissertation notes in 502 field to multiple subfields • Removing GMDs (after 31 March 2016) • Heading changes in accordance with RDA http://oclc.org/rda/new-policy.en.html

Questions?

PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records • Guidelines went into effect May 2013 and only apply to bibliographic records • Recommends PCC cataloger’s use Relationship designators from the RDA Appendices • Use PCC Relationship Designator Form to request new RDA terms • Terms from other registered vocabularies are acceptable • MARC relator codes cannot be used in RDA records • Bib records encoded ‘pcc’ in MARC 042 will always include a relationship designator for creator • May be coded in the MARC 1XX or 7XX: 100 1 Agunias, DovelynRannveig, $e author. 700 1 Newland, Kathleen, $e author. • Use of RDA Appendix I and J relationship designators is highly encouraged, especially when the relationship is unclear

Resource Description and Access: 2014 Update