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RDA Exercises (C&T Training Feb.-Mar. 2013)

IDENTIFYING RDA, ETC.

When is Day One? (applies to: everybody)

Which of the following elements identifies the bib record as RDA? (You can choose more than one) (applies to: everybody)

1.  042 pcc?

2.  040 ‡b eng?

3.  040 ‡e rda?

4.  Leader fixed field Cataloging Form i or (OCLC) Desc i

5.  336,337, 339

6.  300 field has “pages”

TRANSCRIPTION

(Applies to staff who work with book in hand: copy cataloging, CIP, variant edition, and belletristic cataloging)

“Transcribe what you see” applies to which of the following MARC fields?

a.  100 ‡a

b.  245 ‡a

c.  245 ‡c

d.  250 ‡a

e.  264 _1 ‡a

f.  300 ‡a

g.  300 ‡b

h.  490 ‡a

i.  490 ‡v

j.  504 ‡a

Transcribe this!

Transcribe only the information you would add to 245, 250, and 264

a.  by the late Dr. John Watson, M.D., Johns Hopkins University [245]

b.  2nd edition Student edition [250]

c.  All of the following are on the title page with the exception of the copyright date [264]:
Boston, MA
Sydney NSW
London, Ontario
M. Sidney Bros. Limited
Copyright 2014

Transcribe that!

The
Second
Time
We Met
Leila Cobo

Which of the following represents the correct use of capitalization in RDA? [everybody]

1.  The second time we met / Leila Cobo.

2.  The Second Time We Met / Leila Cobo.

Transcribe from the following sources taken from the same book. (Template on the next page)

(CIP, variant edition cataloging, belletristic cataloging)

•  The title/parallel titles proper and other titles

•  Capitalize as found or using standard AACR2/RDA style

•  Provide access for parallel titles (include indicators)

Title page:

ARNAIT PUVIRNITUMIUT KATUTJATUT AMALU QANIRPALUTUT
Inuit Throat and Harp Songs
Eskimo Women's Music of Povungnituk
Back cover:
ARNAIT PUVIRNITUMIUT KATUTJATUT AMALU QANIRPALUTUT
Chants inuit-gorge et guibarde
musique des Esquimaudes de Povungnituk
Inuit Throat and Harp Songs
Eskimo Women's Music of Povungnituk
245 / X / X / ‡a = ‡b

ANOTHER TRANSCRIPTION EXERCISE

Title page. Note error – should be: Programme (English example better?)

Strukturwandel medialer Progamme
vom Fernsehen zu Multimedia
Paech, Schreitmuller, Ziemer (Hg.)

Note last line represents the editors (Herausgabern)

Transcribe as AACR2 & provide access with 246

245 / 0 / 0 / ‡a
246 / 1 / ‡a

Transcribe as RDA & provide access with 246

245 / 0 / 0 / ‡a
246 / 1 / ‡a

STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY (as mashup) (copy cataloging->variant ed.)

Title page Verso title page

THE GRIM GROTTO / Illustrated by Bret Halquist

Front Cover

Dear Reader,
Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings uncover an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depths of despair, underwater.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket

Fill in the blanks:

245 / x / _ / ‡a / ‡c

STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY (variant editions)

Title page, 2nd ed.

PSYCHOLOGY
SECOND EDITION
DANIEL L. SCHACTER
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DANIEL T. GILBERT
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DANIEL M. WEGNER
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

•  Transcribe the title, statement of responsibility, and edition statement; provide a 100 if necessary ; standard or alternative capitalization style—your choice.

100 / 1 / ‡a
245 / ‡a / ‡c
250 / ‡a

Title page, 3rd ed.

PSYCHOLOGY
3RD EDITION
DANIEL T. GILBERT
Harvard University
DANIEL L. SCHACTER Ŧ
1950-2014
Yale University
DANIEL M. WEGNER
Harvard University
AMY SWEDMORE
MIT

Verso of title page:

The third edition of Psychology includes updated bibliographies by Daniel T. Gilbert and a new chapter "Nutrition and the Brain" by Amy Swedmore
With a new introduction by Daniel M. Wegner

Exercise:

•  Transcribe the title, statement of responsibility, and edition statement; provide a 100 if necessary

•  Capitalization, your choice.

Option 1. Alternate capitalization.

100 / 1 / ‡a
245 / ‡a / ‡c
250 / ‡a

Option 2. Standard capitalization.

100 / 1 / ‡a
245 / ‡a / ‡c
250 / ‡a

DATES IN PUBLICATION STATEMENT (everybody except ordering)

Exercise: provide 264 ‡c & 008 date code and date(s) .

Example: 264 _1 … ‡c 2011-2015. 008 m 2011 2015

Exercise #1. No publication date, but verso t.p. has c2013.

264 _1 ‡‡c 008

Exercise #2. Publication date 2014, c2014, received 2013.

264 _1 ‡‡c 008

Exercise #3. No publication date, no copyright date, no distribution date, verso t.p. has : First printing, 2015.

264 _1 ‡‡c 008

Exercise #4. No publication, copyright, distribution or printing dates. On verso of t.p.: Dépôt légal octobre 2011

264 _1 ‡‡c 008

Exercise #5. Publication date on t.p. is MMXIV

264 _1 ‡‡c 008

Question: Should a bracketed date of publication be followed by a period?

YES NO

RDA COMPLIANT? (copy catalogingà)

Which of the following 264s are RDA compliant?

·  264 _1 ‡a [Minneapolis : ‡b Poor Peoples Press, ‡c 1985?]

•  264 _1 ‡a New Haven [Conn.] : ‡b Elm St. Co., ‡c 2014.

•  264 _1 ‡a [Minneapolis] : ‡b [publisher not identified], ‡c [2015]
264 _2 ‡a [Northfield, Minnesota] : ‡b Fell Off the Truck Distributing Service, ‡c 2015.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION (CIP, variant ed., belletristic)

Convert the AACR2 300 to an RDA 300

•  AACR2:
300 __ ‡a 276, [4] p. : ‡b chiefly ill. ; ‡c 25 cm

•  RDA
300 __ ‡a

•  AACR2:
300 __ ‡a 3 v. (xiv, 310 p., 325 p., 456 p.) : ‡b port. ; ‡c 25 cm.

•  RDA
300 __ ‡a

•  AACR2:
300 __ ‡a 1 v. (unfoliated) : ‡b ill. (some col.) ; ‡c 25 cm.

•  RDA
300 __ ‡a

•  AACR2:
300 __ ‡a v. : ‡b maps ; ‡c 25 cm.

•  RDA
300 __ ‡a

•  AACR2:
300 __ ‡a 1 portfolio : ‡b ill. ; ‡c 25 cm.
500 __ ‡a Portfolio contains [30] leaves of plates, 2 folded.

•  RDA
300 __ ‡a

•  AACR2:
300 __ ‡a xxxi, 678 p. : ‡b col. ill. ; ‡c 25 cm. + ‡e 1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in. + ‡e 1 sound disc.
Additional information: sound disc is ca. 20 minutes in duration, digital, and stereo

•  RDA
300 __ ‡a

ABBREVIATED? (CIP, variant, belletristic)

Which of the following should be abbreviated, spelled out, or corrected to, in an RDA 264 or 300 field?

•  Minutes (300)

•  color or colour (300)

•  sound (300) (trick question)

•  [S.l.] (264)

WHICH OF THESE USE A PERIOD AT THE END OF THE FIELD?

•  245 __ … / ‡c by Jenna Jones [and 20 others]

•  250 __ ‡a Third, revised ed.

•  250 __ ‡a 3rd revised edition

•  264 _1 … ‡c [2012]

•  300 ‡c … cm if there is no series

IS IT AN ERROR?

For copy catalogers …

You’re verifying the bib record below; it matches the book in hand, except for the absence of Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz. Is the 245 for Macroeconomics in error or is it cataloger judgment? An added entry was made for Elizabeth Warren only; error or cataloger judgment?

Title page:

MACROECONOMICS
Paul Krugman Elizabeth Warren

Cover:

MACROECONOMICS
Paul Krugman - Elizabeth Warren - Paul Ryan - Ted Cruz

Bib Record 245:

100 / 1 / ‡a Krugman, Paul, ‡e author.
245 / 1 / 0 / ‡a Macroeconomics / $c Paul Krugman, Elizabeth Warren.

For the Michael Malice Story, you are verifying LC or member copy & 245 ‡c refers to the co-authors, but the illustrator and author of the introduction are also listed on the title page but are not transcribed. Is this an error or a cataloger decision?

Title page:

The Michael Malice Story
a Graphic Novel by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Hershl Hartman
Illustrations by Frank Stack
Introduction by Neal Gabler
100 / 1 / ‡a Pekar, Harvey, ‡e author.
245 / 1 / 4 / ‡a The Michael Malice story / ‡c a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Hershl Hartman.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING REQUIRE BRACKETS?

1.  Statement of responsibility taken from the cover

2.  Statement of responsibility taken from the verso of the title page?

3.  Statement of responsibility taken from the book jacket?

4.  Statement of responsibility taken from accompanying material?

5.  Unnumbered leaves in 300

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

•  If the 1st page of the bibliography is page xxiv and the last page of a bibliography would be page xxvii, but is unnumbered, how do you record the pagination in 504?

a.  Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiv-xxvii).

b.  Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiv-[xxvii]).

c.  Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiv-xxvii (unnumbered)).

PREFERRED TITLES

Book title page: The evening colonnade : selected writings / Cyril Connolly.

•  Does it need a 240?

•  If a 240 is made, what is entered in it?

Book title page: Baudelaire : his prose and poetry. Translated by J.R. Smith.

•  What do you enter in 240?

IS IT AN ERROR? (SERIES)

•  SAR has 642 __‡a v. 1

•  490 1_ ‡a Homicide in Europe, ‡x 9874-2397 ; ‡v volume XX

•  830_0 ‡a Homicide in Europe ; ‡v v. XX.