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PINES local RDA Guidelines for Core Elements in Original Cataloging
Since RDA provides options in certain areas of descriptive cataloging, the PINES Cataloging Sub-committee has approved the following practices as PINES local guidelines. Decisions on options are subject to change as best practices continue to emerge. If there is a conflict between a RDA rule and a LC-PCC-PS, we generally follow the latter’s practice.
Some resource examples are from “Georgia Original Cataloging Exercises” prepared by the DLC trainers at GA RDA summits, 2015.
Capitalization (RDA 1.7.2) : Follow RDA Appendix A.
PINES catalogers will follow AACR2 practice for capitalization. For example, in transcribing the title in Resource B: BARBAR THE KING, use lower case:
Instead of:
245 $a BABAR THE KING / $c Jean de Brunhoff ; translated into English by Scott Fontenot & Denise St. Pierre (Yes-dlc).
Transcribe as:
245$a Babar the King / $c Jean de Brunhoff ; translated into English by Scott Fontenot & Denise St. Pierre (PINES practice—lower case title proper except for proper nouns).
Diacritical Marks (RDA 1.7.4)
If diacritical marks do not appear the resource, applying them is optional:
For example:
Source of information reads: LES MISERABLES
Transcribe as: Les misérables
A special case in Punctuations (RDA D. 1.2.1)
Do not manually input double punctuation if a field requiring a period happens to end in an abbreviation.
On resource: Third ed.
Record as Third ed. not Third ed..
See RDA 1.7.3 for guidance on punctuation in transcribed elements.
007 for Audio-visual resources and accompanying materials (in 300 subfield ǂe)
Although RDA has 33xs to bring out characteristics of AV resources, 007 fields are still coded. We will therefore continue to add as many 007s as applicable in cataloging AV resources (see my AV RDA training ppt. files).
Illustrators of children’s books (RDA 7.15, 7.17)
Follow LC practice: LC-PCC 18.5.1.3 and I.3.1.
LC practice: Provide an authorized access point in the bibliographic record for an illustrator in all cases of resources intended for children. Give the RDA appendix I designator “illustrator” in MARC 700 subfield $e.