Jones, Ed. RDA and Serials Cataloging. ALA Editions, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1139-6
Serials and continuing resources present a variety of unique challenges
in bibliographic management, from special issues and unnumbered
supplements to recording the changes that a long-running periodical can
experience over time. Easing catalogers through the RDA: Resource
Description and Access transition by showing the continuity with past
practice, serials cataloging expert Jones frames the practice within the
structure of the FRBR and FRAD conceptual models on which RDA is
based. With serials’ special considerations in mind, he
- Explains the familiarities and differences between AACR2 and RDA
- Demonstrates how serials catalogers’ work fits in the cooperative context of OCLC, CONSER and NACO
- Presents examples of how RDA records can ultimately engage with the Semantic Web
