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This concise guide to cataloguing with RDA: Resource Description and Access is essential for those seeking a simplified path to creating basic RDA records.

In this quick reference source, author Thomas Brenndorfer describes the key RDA concepts and vocabulary and distils RDA instructions, matching them to cataloguing practice in easy-to-follow language. Fully up-to-date with the latest revisions to RDA, this guide makes an excellent introduction while also serving as a bridge to more complex cataloguing.

RDA Essentials is an ideal resource for:

small libraries that require standard cataloguing
LIS students who need an introduction to cataloguing
professionals seeking a ready reference source to RDA
experienced cataloguers needing a quick summary of RDA practice.
Readership: A handy access point for solo and part-time cataloguers, Brennndorfer's guide also supports training and classroom use in any size institution. It will be useful reading for cataloguers and metadata specialists, systems librarians, user services managers, electronic resources librarians, and digital library project managers and students on cataloguing, information management and digital library courses.



Introduction

SECTION 1: ELEMENTS

1. Identifying Manifestations and Items

Mode of Issuance
Titles
Statements of Responsibility
Edition Statements
Numbering of Serials
Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture Statements, and Copyright Date
Series Statements
Frequency, Identifiers, and Notes
Item Elements
2. Describing Carriers

Media Type and Carrier Type
Extent
Dimensions
Specialized Elements
Elements for Sound, Projection, Video, and Digital File Characteristics
Notes
3. Providing Acquisition and Access Information

4. Identifying Works and Expressions

Work Elements
Expression Elements
5. Describing Content

Work Elements
Expression Elements
6. Identifying Persons

Preferred Name for the Person
Variant Names and Other Elements
7. Identifying Families

Preferred Name for the Family
Variant Names and Other Elements
8. Identifying Corporate Bodies

Preferred Name for the Corporate Body
Variant Names and Other Elements
9. Relationships between Entities

10. Relationships to Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource

Relationship Elements
11. Relationships between Works and Subjects

Relationship Elements
12. Relationships between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items

Relationship Elements
13. Relationships between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies

Relationship Elements
SECTION 2: GUIDELINES

14. Transcription (RDA 1.7)

15. Numbers Expressed as Numerals or as Words (RDA 1.8)

16. Notes (RDA 1.10)

17. Titles Associated with a Manifestation (RDA 2.3.1)

18. Statements of Responsibility (RDA 2.4.1)

19. Place of Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture (RDA 2.7.2, 2.8.2, 2.9.2, and 2.10.2)

20. Name of Producer, Publisher, Distributor, and Manufacturer (RDA 2.7.4, 2.8.4, 2.9.4, and 2.10.4)

21. Date of Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture (RDA 2.7.6, 2.8.6, 2.9.6, and 2.10.6)

22. Titles of Works (RDA 6.2.1)

23. Names of Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies (RDA 8.4 and 8.5)

24. Dates Associated with Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies (RDA 9.3.1.3, 10.4.1.3, and 11.4.1.3)

25. Places (RDA 16)

SECTION 3: CONSTRUCTING ACCESS POINTS

26. Persons

27. Families

28. Corporate Bodies

29. Works

30. Expressions

SECTION 4: OTHER ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS

31. Cases Involving Multiple Elements

32. Changes that Result in the Creation of a New Description