We wish to bring to your attention a probable issue that you may face when it comes to matching or not matching your AACR2 access points against RDA authorities.
For instance, say you have an AACR2 bib record with the following access points:
110 $a United States. $b Dept. of the Defense.
710 $a United States. $b Dept. of Communications.
710 $a United States. $b Dept. of the Defense.
The 110 & 2nd 710 will match [n 79021946] and flip to:
110 $a United States. $b Department of Defense.
710 $a United States. $b Department of Defense.
But the 1st 710 will not find a match and remains as-is:
710 $a United States. $b Dept. of Communications.
So your processed (AACR2) record ends up looking like this:
110 $a United States. $b Department of Defense.
710 $a United States. $b Dept. of Communications.
710 $a United States. $b Department of Defense.
This is the scenario that our clients are facing when Step 5 of the RDA Profile (link) hasn’t been filled out. RDA Step 5 helps to prepare access points for better matching against RDA authorities. And it has this failsafe included: in the event of a non-match against RDA authorities, the heading itself still follows RDA cataloging standards.
Of course, if your Library is not quite ready to embrace RDA and the changes afoot it may not make sense at this time to perform these kinds of changes to your access points.
At the very least, we wanted to point out this potential issue and let you know that we have a remedy in place ready to go when you need it.
For more information, please feel free to contact your project managers or myself at anytime:
Nate Cothran
Judy Archer
Stephanie Hansen
Nate Cothran
Vice President, Automation Services
25 East 1700 South
Provo, Utah 84606
Phone: +1.800.288.1265, ext. 697
Direct: +1.801.342.5697
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