1. RDA Update MARC Change Summary Sally McCallum RDA Update Forum June 23, 2012 Library of Congress

2. RDA Update forum June 23, 2012 Sally McCallum Library of Congress Waves of changes Changes from MARC/RDA group analysis (2009/2010)  Most of the basic changes relating to Content, media, carrier types Attributes of names and resources Relationships Changes that came from test results (2011)  Augmentation of previous changes,  Additional subfields  Coded data adjustments, etc. Changes from PCC implementation preparations (2012)  Making data more machine actionable, etc.

3. RDA Update forum June 23, 2012 Sally McCallum Library of Congress Content, media, and carrier terms MARC coded data areas/RDA terms  RDA content types New field 336 MARC LDR/06  RDA media types New field 337 MARC 007/00  RDA carrier types New field 338 MARC 007/01  RDA carrier characteristics RDA terms in MARC 300, 340, and new fields 344 - 347

4. RDA Update forum June 23, 2012 Sally McCallum Library of Congress Attributes of names and resources Names  10 new fields in Authority format  Continuing discussion on whether field content is in heading form or “casual” form Resources (works and expressions)  8 new fields for Authority and Bibliographic formats  Accommodates two models “uniform” work or expression title  Described in authority record (as today)  Described in bibliographic record (logical)

5. RDA Update forum June 23, 2012 Sally McCallum Library of Congress Relationships RDA Appendix I - name to resource terms  Accommodated in subfields $e (relator) RDA Appendix J – resource to resource terms  RDA specifies several methods Accommodated in various types of fields  Subfield $i (relationship information) added to several heading fields RDA Appendix K – name to name terms  Subfield $i (relationship information) added to several additional heading fields

6. RDA Update forum June 23, 2012 Sally McCallum Library of Congress Other changes Miscellaneous  Additional subfields added to existing fields  Changes from “not repeatable” to “repeatable”  New field 264 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice

7. RDA Update forum June 23, 2012 Sally McCallum Library of Congress RDA-related changes in the pipeline Under consideration  2012-02 – Machine actionable titles related to a name (Authority format)  2012-04 – Expand 368 (Other Corporate Body Attributes) to include person attributes e.g., Princess, Holiness, Saint  2012-05 – Make field 250 (Edition Statement) repeatable for new types of edition-related data for music e.g., Piano reduction, Vocal score  2012-06 – New subfield in field 028 (Publisher Number) for number qualifiers e.g., set, disc 1, disc 2, on label, on container spine  2012-07 – New value in 008/20 MU (Format of music) in response to April 2012 revision of definition of vocal score in RDA

8. RDA Update forum June 23, 2012 Sally McCallum Library of Congress Conclusions?  Changes have “settled down”  Changes and additions may continue as RDA is revised – but at a very slow pace  Focus now needs to be on learning and using RDA  Keep up with MARC changes: www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC