On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Thompson, Rebecca L <[email protected]> wrote: > My colleague and I have a couple of questions: > > First, we are confused by the print versions pertaining to RDA on the ALA > website. The RDA: Resource Description and Access and RDA: Element Set View > have the exact same description, except the latter has the statement “RDA: > Element Set View is an innovative way of sorting the RDA instructions by > element, such as Title, Place of Publication etc.” We were under the > impression this is what RDA was to begin with. Is this a printed out > version of what is under the tools tab in the RDA Toolkit? Could anyone > explain the differences between the two?
Basically, the Element Set View just lists the RDA elements (and their instructions) in a different order--by FRR entities. If you have a copy of the Toolkit handy now or recall it from the open access period, the Element Set View is the first one listed under the Tools tab. ALA Publishing has admitted that the description for this volume isn't clear and will make amends, though I don't know when. > Our second question relates to the use of the terms "born" and "died" (b. or > d. in AACR2) in name headings. In 9.19.1.3, the examples (copied below) show > the use of these terms. However, at the ALA RDA101 pre-conference in June > and the ALCTS Introduction to RDA webinar last Wednesday, the examples > always showed use of a dash (examples below) and we were told to not use the > terms born and died. Since both of these trainings were officially > sanctioned, I am wondering what is correct. Has there been a change and the > toolkit has been updated yet? Or was there a change and it just hasn't > filtered down the trainers yet? The "only use hyphens" instructions is LC practice during this RDA testing period; see the LCPS for 9.3.2.3 and 9.3.3.3.* RDA allows for a more open interpretation of how to record dates for persons. * <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rda_lcps.html>; Also available via Cataloger's Desktop -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex Coordinator University of Minnesota Bibliographic & Technical 15 Andersen Library Services (BATS) Unit 222 21st Avenue South Phone: 612-624-0805 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439 <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>
