Hello, I have one a case with the following: Reprinted date 2013 First published date 2012 Copyright Robin Mansell (c)2012 (the author)
I recorded them in RDA 246 as follows: 008 date type r Date 1 = 2012 Date 2 = 2013 264 #1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2013] 264 #4 $a [Oxford] : $b Robin Mansell, $c (c)2012 588 ## $First published 2012 and reprinted in 2013. 020 ##9780199697052 Kindly advise Thank you Basma Chebani Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services Department University Libraries / Jafet American University of Beirut Beirut - Lebanon Tel: 961-1-350000 ext.2614 basma.cheb...@aub.edu.lb -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of McDonald, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 8:49 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] 264 with only a copyright date Gene Fieg asked, regarding the inclusion of copyright date and inferred publication date in an RDA record: > And how is the user supposed to make sense of this? > How are thesis advisors supposed to make sense of this when checking > bibliographical citations? > How will it display???? I don't see what you think is confusing about this. The user will look for a publication date, and will find it. What is confusing about that? The same with thesis advisors. What publication date do you think thesis advisors would expect to find? This inferred publication date is only used when there is no evidence of a publication date except the copyright date. A thesis advisor would almost certainly rather some guess of the publication date than no date at all. I would note that theses generally don't have copyright dates, and do have other dates which can be inferred as publication date. So this isn't usually an issue with theses anyway. As for how it will display, that is up to the ILS, of course. One reasonable way (but hardly the only possible way) it could be displayed is: Publication date: [2011] Copyright: (c)2011 That's the way we have it set up in our catalog (Millennium, the same as you have, I believe). Steve McDonald steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
