Identifying Series: Attributes of a Work

and Attributes of an Expression:

RDA Chapters 5 and 6

Module 2a

Chapter 5: General Guidelines on Recording Attributes of Works and

Expressions• Find works• Identify the work or expression represented• Understand relationships• Understand why a particular title has been

recorded as a preferred or variant title• Select a work or expression

Differentiation. The data should serve to differentiate

the work or expression represented from others.

• Representation. The title designated as the preferred title for a work should be (in order of preference) the title most frequently found in resources embodying the work in its original language, the title as found in reference sources, or the title most frequently found in resources embodying the work. Other titles found in resources embodying the work or in reference sources, or that the user might be expected to use when conducting a search, should be recorded as variant titles.

Concept of Series as a Work

• RDA 5.1.2 Work and ExpressionThe terms work and expression should be read, where applicable, to include not only an individual entity, but also aggregates and components of such entities (i.e., the term work should be read to include aggregate works and components of works as well as individual works, etc).

Work Attributes for Series

Expression Attributes for Series

Other attributes?

• Record as many of the additional identifying elements as necessary to differentiate the work or expression.

• Record the elements either as additions to the access point representing the work, as separate elements, or as both.

RDA 5.8: Source Consulted

Core – LC and PCC; required by NACO

Chapter 6:Identifying Works andExpressions

6.2: Title of the Work - Core

• Preferred title for the work is a core element. • Variant titles for the work are optional.

Scope: is a word, character, or group of words and/or characters by which a work is known.

Sources of Information: Take the title or titles of the work from any source. There are still priority sources which we will talk about later.

6.2: Title of the Work continued

6.2.1.3: General Guidelines on Recording Titles of Works

• Capitalization: Examples:– A dictionary of American English on

historical principles– Journal of biosocial science. Supplement– Sechs Partiten für Flöte

6.2: Title of the Work continued• Numbers Expressed as Numerals or as Words• Diacritical Marks• Initial Articles - Omit an initial article unless the

title for a work is to be accessed under that article (e.g., a title that begins with the name of a person or place). – Taming of the shrewnot The taming of the shrew (as appears on item)

6.2: Title of the Work continued

• Spacing of Initials and Acronyms • Abbreviations: those that are integral parts of

the title– Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey

• LCPS for 1.7.1 Transcription guidelines all in one place