Resource description and discoverability: trends and challenges : introduction

ByDr Hester Marais

maraih@unisa.ac.za

Developments in cataloguing

• Library Reference Model

• ISBD and MARC

Library Reference Model

Background

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records – 1998

• Functional Requirements for Authority Data -2009

• Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data - 2010

Library Reference Model …

• Scope

• https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/frbr-lrm/ifla-lrm-august-2017.pdf

Library Reference Model …

• Changes:

- three new entities:

Collective agent

Nomen

Time-span

Library Reference Model …

• Changes:

- Person, Family, Corporate body become

sub-types of Agent and Collective agent

• Implementation date: April 2018 release of RDA Toolkit

• http://www.rda-rsc.org/ImplementationLRMinRDA

ISBD and MARC

• Background

• Reasoning

ISBD and MARC …

• Redundancy

264 #1 $a London : $b Penguin Books,

$c 2015.

ISBD and MARC …

- Economy

Catalogers often put too much time and

effort into inputting and correcting ISBD

punctuation in bibliographic records.

ISBD and MARC …

• Solution

Construct MARC bibliographic records with

most ISBD punctuation omitted.

Eliminating most punctuation from MARC

records simplifies data entry and allows

catalogers to focus solely on coding to better

identify parts of the bibliographic description.

ISBD and MARC …

• Future

Current: 222 #0 $a Family herald

$b (Montreal. 1859)

Future: 222 #0 $a Family herald

$b Montreal $b 1859

010 ## $a 2009543722 028 22 $a AP-2040 $b Alliance Publications 040 ## $a DLC $e aacr/2 $c DLC 050 00 $a M759 $b .B 100 1# $a Beethoven $h Ludwig van $d 1770-1827 240 10 $a Sonatas $m piano $j no. 8, op. 13 $r C minor $p Adagio cantabile $o arranged 245 10 $a Pathetique $b op. 13 $b Cantabile $b for clarinet choir $c Ludwig van Beethoven $d arr. by James D. Thornton 260 ## $a Fish Creek, WI $b Alliance Publications $c c2006 300 ## $a 1 score (9 p.) $a 7 parts (2 sets) $c 28 cm 500 ## $a Originally for piano; arr. for clarinet choir 500 ## $a Caption title 500 ## $i Duration $a 5:00 500 ## $a "Gr 3" $z Cover 650 #0 $a Woodwind septets $g Clarinets (7) $h Arranged $v Scores and parts 650 #0 $a Clarinet choir music $h Arranged $v Scores and parts 700 1# $a Thornton $h James D. $d 1953- $4 arr

ISBD and MARC …

• Conversion programs in place

• Policy decisions

• Implementation date: 1 January 2018

http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/isbdmarc2016.pdf