Module 5
Key differences from AACR2
Recording Data
Adapted from: Teaching RDA: Train-the-trainer course RDA: Resource description and
access presented by the National Library of Australia in 2012 and made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
Learning Outcomes
Differences between AACR2 and RDA
• Transcription changes
• ISBD changes
• Changes from GMD to Content, Media
and Carrier types
Recording and
transcribing
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Language and Script
Abbreviations
Inaccuracies
Supplied title information
Marks of punctuation
Rule of three
Abbreviations
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Abbreviations
Publication, Distribution, etc.
AACR2 1.4B4
RDA 2.8.1.4
260 ## $a Victoria, B.C. :
$b Dept. of Geography,
University of Victoria, $c
1979.
264 #1 $a Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada : $b
Department of Geography,
University of Victoria, $c
1979.
Source of information reads: Department of Geography, University of
Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Abbreviations
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Abbreviations
Unknown place and/or publisher
AACR2 1.4C6, 1.4D6
RDA 2.8.2.6, 2.8.4.7
260 ## $a [S.l.] : $b Poote Press,
$c 1987.
264 #1 $a [Place of publication not identified] :
$b Poote Press, $c 1987.
260 ## $a Vancouver, B.C. : $b
[s.n.], $c 1951.
264 #1 $a Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada : $b [publisher not identified], $c
1951.
260 ## $a [Seattle? : $b s.n., $c
1966]
264 #1 $a [Seattle?] $b [publisher not
identified], $c [1966]
260 ## $a [S.l. : $b s.n.], $c 1962.
264 #1 $a [Place of publication not identified] :
$b [publisher not identified], $c 1962.
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Abbreviations
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A
comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Inaccuracies
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A
comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Supplied title
information
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A
comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Marks of
punctuation
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A
comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Parallel titles
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A
comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
NLNZ and parallel
titles
• Parallel titles are a core element for NLNZ
• When a source has titles in English and Māori,
NLNZ will use sequence, layout &/or
typography of titles when choosing title
proper, not language of text (RDA 2.3.2.4).
This may affect the choice of parallel title
Rule of Three
Adapted from: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A
comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Rule of Three
Source: Changes from AACR2 to RDA: A
comparison of examples / Adam L. Schiff
Example
020
$a 9781927131442
100 1# $a Orange, Claudia, $e author.
245 14 $a The story of a treaty / $c Claudia
Orange.
250 $a Second edition.
264 #1 $a Wellington, New Zealand : $b Bridget
Williams Books, $c 2013.
300 $a 176 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly
colour) ; $c 24 cm
Module 5
Exercise 1
Examples
Where to find more examples
• Library of Congress Test Records
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatestrecords.html
• North Carolina State University
https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/RDA
• RDA Toolkit
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/examples/MARC
Content, Media,
Carrier types
What is the GMD for …
• a map on CD-ROM?
• a movie?
• printed text?
AACR2 GMD is replaced by 3 elements in RDA
• Content type
• Media type
• Carrier type
Content type
RDA 6.9
Content type
notated
movement
MARC 336
Media type
RDA 3.2
Media type
microform
MARC 337
Carrier type
RDA 3.3
Carrier type
microform
carriers
MARC 338
Content, Media,
Carrier types
245 10 $a Aeroplane jelly song
336 ## $a notated music
$2 rdacontent
337 ## $a unmediated
$2 rdamedia
338 ## $a volume
$2 rdacarrier
Module 5
Exercise 2
Summary
• Transcription changes
• ISBD changes
• Content, Media and Carrier types