Rda And Serials Cataloging 1st Edition Ed Jones American Library Association Staff by Ed Jones; American Library Association Staff 9780838996225, 0838996221 instant download after payment.

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, heExplains the familiarities and differences between AACR2 and RDADemonstrates how serials catalogers' work fits in the cooperative context of OCLC, CONSER and NACOPresents examples of how RDA records can ultimately engage with the Semantic WebOccasional serials catalogers and specialists alike will find useful advice here as they explore the structure of the new cataloging framework.