I am not a RDA guru either and perhaps I am too rare book centric in my thinking, but I do not understand the need to perpetuate the myth that the publication date is 2014, when the resource was clearly published in 2013. The resource may not state that it is published in 2013, but by the fact that it is on my desk waiting to be cataloged in 2013, I can conclude that it was indeed published in 2013, despite the presence of a copyright date of 2014. Moreover, I would argue that the RDA definition of publication date is consistent with this line of thought, as we know the resource was released in 2013.
Date of Publication: A date associated with the publication, release, or issuing of a resource. -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Lisa Hatt Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:45 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Publication date/copyright date On 3/28/2013 8:07 AM, Will Evans <ev...@bostonathenaeum.org> wrote: > Rules or no rules, shouldn't the record reflect the reality of the > situation?! > > 264#1 $c [2013] > 264#4 $c (c) 2014 > > > 500 Publication received by cataloging agency in 2013. $ MBAt I'm puzzled by this approach, which seems to second-guess the publisher's intent. Unless there's something we haven't been told, I don't get the idea that the resource itself makes any statement about having been published in 2013. If a cataloger first encountered this item in 2014+, they'd have no reason to believe it was published in anything other than 2014, because that's the date printed on the thing itself, yes? (I know there are reverse cases where a later ed. such as trade pbk. does not actually state its publication date and simply retains the copyright of the first hc ed., resulting in situations like [2002], c2001 in AACR2. But in that case other information supports the choice of supplied date, I think.) Rare books might be different, and I am no RDA guru, but my feeling would be to go with what Deborah recommended. -- Lisa Hatt Cataloging De Anza College Library 408-864-8459
