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RDA Refreshers

Recently, Library of Congress cataloging staff were surveyed about their needs for ‘refresher’ training as a follow-up to RDA implementation. The material is being made freely available through the Catalogers Learning Workshop.

This page is intended as a one-stop resource for the products and services developed by the Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division (COIN), with the assistance of the Policy and Standards Division (PSD), in response to that survey. The topics listed below are addressed by using ‘performance support’ – job aids, clarifications of policies, optional ‘test-yourself’ online quizzes, etc. Click on the link below to open the document.

This page will be updated as new ‘training’ opportunities and products are developed.  Among the topics still being developed are tools addressing:

  • Compilations and Collaborations
  • NAR 3XX Fields
  • NARs for Animals, Fictitious Characters, and Biblical Figures
  • NARs for People with Variant Forms, Titles of Nobility, or Dates
  • Related Works and LC-PCC PS 25.1
  • Serial-Related Issues

To suggest additional topics, contact Tim Carlton at [email protected].

Topic Courses, Performance Support, Other Methodologies

Capitalization, Abbreviations, Numbers

Performance Support Document
(PDF, 44 KB)

Test Yourself! Online Quiz

Video “Conversations About RDA” (21:46)

Cataloger Judgment and the Statement of Responsibility

Performance Support Document
(PDF, 30 KB)

Test Yourself! Online Quiz

Video “Conversations About RDA” (25:45)

Video Examples “Conversations About RDA” (18:58)

Compilations of Multiple Language Expressions

Performance Support Document
(PDF, 32 KB)

Compilations of Works by Different Creators

Performance Support Document
(PDF, 63 KB)

How to Find Changes in RDA and the LC-PCC PSs

Performance Support Document
(PDF, 37 KB)

Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture Statements, and Copyright Date

Performance Support Document
(PDF, 51 KB)

Recording 33X Fields

Performance Support Document (PDF, 43 KB)

Relationship Designators

PCC SCT Training Manual
(PDF, 324 KB)

Transcription of Core Elements

Performance Support Document (PDF, 76 KB)

Undifferentiated Names

“Undifferentiated Names”
(PPT, 1.74 MB)

Video “Conversations About RDA” (8:52)

What is Different from AACR2?

Performance Support Document (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Video “Conversations About RDA” (26:03)

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