Sneak Peek: Major Changes Coming to RDAApril 2015

Kathy GlennanHead, Authorities & Specialty Cataloging,

University of MarylandALA Representative to the Joint Steering CommitteeFebruary 25, 2015

JSC Papers, 2014

Clarification49%

Major change23%

Technical6%

Discussion9%

Rejected2%

Deferred11%

End of the Cascading Vortex of Horror!

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• Remove the conditional core status for• Distribution Statement• Manufacture Statement• Copyright Date

• [… not identified] still needed for publication information, but no longer required for• Distribution elements• Manufacture elements

• Option to continue using• [distributor not identified],

etc.

Duration• Simplify 7.22• Single instruction about

recording duration• No single standard

required for recording duration• 2:15:45• 2 hr., 15 min., 45 sec.• 2.2575 hr.

• Consistent use of “approximately”

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Color• 7.17 will contain two

primary terms, with option for more detail

Monochrome

black and white

Polychrome

Color

Subject Relationships• New instructions for

subject relationships – Chapter 23• At a very high level• Relates to a Work• Encompasses thesauri,

classification, keywords • Moving descriptive

work relationship designators to new related Appendix M

Untitled Works• Reworking of Chapter

6 to include specific instructions for works without titles• Manuscripts• Choreographic works• Art• Photographs• etc.

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Statement of Responsibility• Merging 7.23

(Performer, Narrator, and/or Presenter) and 7.24 (Artistic and/or Technical Credit) with 2.4 (Statement of Responsibility)• Expanding 2.17.3.5

to permit current practice to continue

Creating Personal Name AAPs• Prescribed order of

additions removed from much of 9.19• Enables flexibility for

RDA’s international adopters

• Guidance expected to move to policy statements• No change in

application?

Books of the Bible• Revising instructions

to remove Anglo-American/Authorized Version bias• Will create lists for

books and groups of books in “Tools Tab”• Individual books of

the Apocrypha entered under Bible

Questions?