Cataloging with RDA

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish between work, expression, manifestation and item as they apply to describing and providing access to resources and understand their roles in enabling users to find, identify, select and obtain resources
• Build descriptions of resources using RDA Core elements
• Create authorized access points using preferred names for persons, families and corporate bodies and preferred titles for works
• Articulate relationships between works, expressions, manifestations and items and between resources and persons, families and corporate bodies using RDA vocabularies
• Use the RDA Toolkit and workflows to identify rules relevant to describing resources and creating access points

Target Audience
Library catalogers with experience in cataloging with AACR2 and MARC

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of AACR2 and experience applying rules to cataloging situations
• Working knowledge of the MARC 21 and/or OCLC MARC bibliographic formats
• Desire to learn; openness to change
• Participants must have access to the RDA Toolkit through institutional or personal subscription
• To be prepared for the face-to-face instruction, Students MUST view the online "Introducing RDA," covering RDA background and history, FRBR review and RDA Core Descriptive Elements, and complete the accompanying assignment.

Homework Expectations and Completion Requirements
Students will complete in-class exercises reinforcing RDA concepts and will complete MARC-based descriptions for resources, applying RDA rules.

Schedule
This is a full-day course.

Instructor
Bill Walker