RDA records are intended to be compatible with existing records. We are
accepting them as is in our catalog and have made the changes to our
system to be able to load them and not lose fields. We also decided which
new MARC fields we wanted to display and what they should be labeled in
the display.
It seems a large waste of time and effort to back-convert RDA records to
AACR2. I really don't see how users would be confused by them. There
will for a short time be some splits in access points between AACR2 form
of headings and RDA forms, but those can be cleaned up later once LC and
PCC decide which AACR2 forms of headings will be left alone and not
changed to a pure RDA form. Since we have an authority vendor, we think
this can all be worked out. On March 7, we had 157 RDA bib. records in
our catalog, a pittance compared to all of the records we load every day.
I just don't think this small number is likely to stand out.
Also, since we use WorldCat Local as our public catalog, we could not
change the OCLC record anyway, as OCLC does not want libraries changing
the master record back and forth from RDA to AACR2.
Adam Schiff
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Adam L. Schiff
Principal Cataloger
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900
(206) 543-8409
(206) 685-8782 fax
[email protected]
http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Jeff Peckosh wrote:
I am not sure what to do when an RDA record is the only choice for a book. Do
you usually make the records back to
AACR2 or is your system the way to accept RDA records already? I just feel like
if I don't change the records back
to AACR2, our customers may get confused about the look of the records, so to
keep it consistent I change them all.
Would be nice to find out what other people do in this case.
Thank you so much,
Jeff Peckosh
Public Library Cataloging Librarian
