You see, FRBR is not so very different from

what we do now!

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 Collocation

• Objectives of a catalog, Don Quixote

Cervantes
to display:
• All works associated English
with a person, etc. Exemplary
• All expressions of the French novels
same work
• All manifestations of the German
same expression
• All items/copies of the Spanish
same manifestation Madrid, 1979

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 Unit 2: Overview of RDA
• RDA Terminology
• RDA: What it is
• The Structure of RDA

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 RDA Terminology

AACR2 RDA
heading authorized access point
author, composer,
creator
artist, etc.
preferred title and, if
main entry appropriate, the authorized
access point for the creator
Two RDA counterparts:
1. the preferred title and any
uniform title differentiating information;
2. a conventional collective
title such as “Works”
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 RDA Terminology

AACR2 RDA
see reference variant access point
see also authorized access point for
reference related entity
physical
carrier description
description
three elements:
general material 1. content type
designator 2. media type
3. carrier type
chief source preferred sources