Yes this discussion occurs about this time every year, but we solve it,
in the absence of a publication date, by recording the copyright date as
published on the piece regardless of when the thing was received (per
AACR2 1.4F6). We CAN blame RDA for its instruction in 2.8.6.6 to
"supply the date or approximate date of publication" when it is NOT
printed on the piece, thus introducing multiple records for the same
manifestation and going against the principle of exact transcription.
John Attig wrote:
On 11/24/2010 12:36 PM, Mike Tribby wrote:
So the 2010 date, which does not actually appear on the item, would be recorded
in an RDA record based simply on when the item appeared at the cataloging
agency based on... what?
What if the item arrived at one agency on December 31, 2010, but arrived at
other cataloging agencies' offices on January 2, 2011 owing to vagaries in
holiday scheduling for delivery companies? The book would then be a [2010]
publication some places, but just as legitimately a 2011 for other agencies?
Just another thing to love about RDA! This truly is the season of giving, isn't
it?
You cannot blame this on RDA. This discussion occurs about this time of
year *every year* on AUTOCAT when people begin receiving materials with
next year's publication date but which have obviously already been
published. RDA does not change the fact that this does happen, nor the
arguments about how correctly to record the "facts".
John Attig
Authority Control Librarian
Penn State University
jx...@psu.edu
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