NCSU Libraries is happy to provide open accessibility to our Resource Description & Access (RDA) test materials. While our goal is to make as many materials as open as possible, visitors should note that they may find occasional pages restricted throughout this site (logins, staff information, etc.). Please also note that this is a living documentation site for NCSU catalogers and will change and grow as we proceed. All decisions applied to the US RDA Test period. Our RDA documentation is quite a moving target. NCSU Libraries continues to catalog in RDA since the test period and we are in implementation conversations with the community nationally. We are happy for feedback on this site. Please email Erin Stalberg, Head Metadata & Cataloging, NCSU Libraries.
Table of Contents
RDA Toolkit
- RDA Toolkit URL: http://access.rdatoolkit.org/
- Login instructions
NCSU RDA Test Wrap-up
NCSU Local RDA Test Participant Information
- RDA Test Common Set Workflow
- Find your NCSU Tester ID
- Find your NCSU Common Set Cataloging Record Assignment
- Find your assigned record on the chart: US RDA Test Common and Copy Set Surrogates
- Catalog your title in RDA or AACR2, as assigned
- Complete a US RDA Test Survey (either Common Original Set or Common Copy Set, as appropriate)
- Complete the NCSU RDA Test Form
- RDA Test Extra Set Workflow
- Find your NCSU Tester ID
- Catalog in RDA anything (and everything) you find in your normal day-to-day world needing original cataloging. You may also upgrade copy that meets our criteria for upgrade to RDA (see policies below)
- Complete a US RDA Test Survey (either Extra Original Set or Extra Copy Set, as appropriate)
- Complete the NCSU RDA Test Form
- RDA Test Non-MARC Workflow
- Find your NCSU Tester ID
- Follow the instructions at: RDA Test Non-MARC Workflow
- Complete a US RDA Test Survey for the Extra Copy Set
(we are treating these as upgraded copy) - Complete the NCSU RDA Test Form
(under Format Cataloged and under Item Type choose "non-MARC")
- OCLC Information for the Test
- RDA Test Survey Summary
- Overall Instructions for the RDA Test (Testing Partners US RDA Test documentation)
NCSU Local Policy & Procedures
- 336-338 fields
- Authority Work for the RDA Test Period
- Kindle eBook Cataloging for the RDA Test
- Policy on Upgrading Monographic Records to RDA during the RDA Test Period
- Policy on Upgrading Serial and Integrating Resource Records to RDA During the RDA Test Period - Updated 7 Oct. 2010
- Relationship Designators (Relator Terms)
- Rule of 3
- Supplying the Date of Publication for Single Part Monographs
Questions, Clarifications, and Curiosities
- Constructing RDA Authorized Access Points for Persons
- Creator vs Collaborator
- Encoding the Date of Publication for Single Part Monographs
- Instructions in AACR2 but not in RDA
- ISBD full stop
- Noun phrases occurring with a statement of responsibility
- Relationship designator term encoding practice (MARC 100-111 & 700-711, subfields e and j)
- Relationship designator phrase encoding practice (MARC 700-730, subfield i)
- Should I include a 300 field for an incomplete print serial?
- System Details Note (MARC 538) in RDA
- Which MARC fields are transcribed?
NCSU RDA Test Workflows
- Constructing RDA Authorized Access Points for Persons and Corporate Bodies Workflow
- Multipart Monograph Workflow
- Single Part Monograph Workflow
- Continuing Resource Workflow - updated 8 Oct. 2010
NCSU RDA Test Workforms
Monographic Formats
- CD sound recording workform
- CDROM book workform
- CDROM computer file workform
- DVD workform
- eBook workform (with Provider-Neutral adaptations)
- Kindle eBook workform (with Provider-Neutral adapations and NCSU Local Kindle eBook Provider-Specific instructions)
- Single or multipart monograph workform
- Streaming video workform
Continuing Resources Formats
- Print serial workform - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
- Online serial workform - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
- Print integrating resource workform - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
- Online integrating resource workform - Updated 23 Sept. 2010
NCSU RDA Test Practice Record Electronic Surrogates & RDA MARC 21 Test Record Examples
Monographic Formats
- Audiobook MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Lives of girls and women by Alice Munro) - CD Sound Recording MARC21 RDA Record Example
(219 days by Kalan Porter) - CDROM MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Destructive turf insects: the grubs by Lawn & Landscape Media Group) - DVD #1 Electronic Surrogate
(Emma, 1996 -- Feature film) - DVD #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Emma, 1996 -- Feature Film) - DVD #2 Electronic Surrogate
(Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set -- Television Program) - DVD #2 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set -- Television Program) - DVD #3 Electronic Surrogate
(Legacy of fire: the story of the Tillamook Burn -- Documentary) - DVD #3 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Legacy of fire: the story of the Tillamook Burn -- Documentary) - eBook #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Embedded Linux primer by Christopher Hallinan -- RDA ebook record derived from print AACR2 with Provider-Neutral Guidelines applied) - Kindle eBook #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(With Provider-Neutral adapations and NCSU Local Kindle eBook Provider-Specific instructions) - Multipart Monograph #1 Electronic Surrogate
(Intellectual property and business edited by Stephen E. Margolis and Craig M. Newmark) - Multipart Monograph #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Intellectual property and business edited by Stephen E. Margolis and Craig M. Newmark) - Multipart Monograph #2 Electronic Surrogate
(Mass trauma and emotional healing around the world edited by Ani Kalayjian and Dominique Eugene) - Multipart Monograph #2 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Mass trauma and emotional healing around the world edited by Ani Kalayjian and Dominique Eugene) - Single Part Monograph #1 Electronic Surrogate
(Food security in India by Dr. Anshu) - Single Part Monograph #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(Food security in India by Dr. Anshu) - Single Part Monograph #2 Electronic Surrogate
(The blog by Enrique Martínez Celaya) - Single Part Monograph #2 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(The blog by Enrique Martínez Celaya) - Streaming Video #1 MARC21 RDA Record Example
(For whom the bell tolls: the Spanish Civil War)
Continuing & Integrating Resource Formats
- Printed textual serial
Avian Biology Research - practice example
Avian Biology Research - practice answers
India Media Studies Journal - practice example
India Media Studies Journal - practice answers
CNR - practice example
CNR - practice answers
- Online textual serial
Energy and the Earth : Research - practice example: see http://www.mines.edu/energyandtheearth
Energy and the Earth : Research - practice answers
Other Institution MARC21 RDA Record Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Book Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA GMD Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Language & Expression Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Publication Statement Examples
- LC AACR2 to RDA Statement of Responsibility Examples
- University of Chicago MARC21 RDA Examples
- Search LC examples in the LC catalog:
- From the home page, left click BASIC SEARCH
- In the SEARCH TEXT box, type: 040e rda
- Left click EXPERT SEARCH in the SEARCH TYPE box.
- Left click BEGIN SEARCH button.
- To view a record, left click any title.
- You will be taken to the BRIEF RECORD display.
- To see the full MARC record, left click MARC TAGS tab.
- (instructions courtesy of J. McRee (Mac) Elrod, on RDA-L, October 20, 2010)
- Search examples in OCLC:
- Use "dx:rda" in the command line which searches the 040 $e. Because there are now several thousand RDA records available, you'll also need to combine that with other search criteria (year or material type, for example).
NCSU RDA Training Documentation
PowerPoint Presentations:
- FRBR and Entity Relationships
- NCSU RDA Training Day 1
- NCSU RDA Training Day 2
- NCSU RDA Training Day 3
Training Documents:
NCSU RDA Presentations
- Preparing Copy Catalogers for RDA: Beyond Guidelines and Procedures
Erin Stalberg, ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Interest Group
June 25, 2011, New Orleans, LA - RDA: Your 'Recommended Daily Allowance' of Cataloging
Christee Pascale and Erin Stalberg, North Carolina State University Librarians' Association
April 15, 2011, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC - RDA Ask-the-Experts Webinar
Erin Stalberg, with Linda Gabel (OCLC), Trina Grover (Ryerson University, Toronto), and Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, GSLIS)
February 17, 2011 - RDA: A Practitioner’s Approach to Staff Training and Testing
Erin Stalberg, Lyrasis Ideas and Insights, Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future!
January 20, 2011, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka KS - RDA: A Practitioner’s Approach to Staff Training and Testing
Erin Stalberg, Lyrasis Ideas and Insights, Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future!
November 12, 2010, Holy Cross College, Worchester, MA
External Documentation
- 33X Term and Code Lists
- Adding RDA Elements/Fields to Existing OCLC non-RDA Records
- CONSER's "RDA as modified by CSR: recommended guidelines"
- Examples of changes from AACR2 to RDA
(Adam Schiff, University of Washington Libraries) - LC RDA train-the-trainer Webcasts
- Library of Congress RDA test site
- MARC21 Encoding to Accomodate RDA Elements: LC Practice for the RDA Test
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #5) - PCC Guidelines for RDA Test
- RDA in MARC
(Proposed and implemented changes to MARC for RDA @ LC MARC Standards) - RDA Controlled Vocabularies: "Not Closed" and "Closed
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #1) - RDA Core Elements
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #4) - RDA Core Elements and FRBR User Tasks
(Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA) - RDA Elements: Core, Core If and LC Core|confluence/download/attachments/17600159/TrainingDoc3-RDAElements.doc?version=1&modificationDate=1284490686000|||\
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #3) - University of Chicago RDA test site
- University of Minnesota RDA test site
- Where Is It in RDA
(LC Train the Trainer Training Document #2)