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# Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics (ALA Editions) 1st Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Useful primer on RDA
  

*by G***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 14, 2011*

Christine Oliver, coordinator of cataloguing and authorities at McGill University Libraries, is one of the most competent librarians in the world to discuss RDA and author such a primer.The audience for this book is practicing cataloguers familiar with AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition) practices who want to prepare themselves for RDA and probably have not been in library school for ten years or more. Oliver does an excellent job of distilling the FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) theoretical model into practical terms.Additionally Oliver points out how much of the language in RDA is similar to or exactly the same as AACR2 and points out where language has been altered and drastically changed to fit the FRBR model. This makes it very useful for those acquainted with AACR2, but may be less useful for those with no AAACR2 experience.This book is very skinny, so it is a quick and easy read. I don't quite understand a previous review suggesting that the text is overly wordy. (And to reply to another comment, no textbook author is paid by the word! Far from it and certainly not by CLA and ALA.)The one drawback is that Oliver had to write this book using the draft language of RDA and probably had early access to the initial release in June 2010. However, the text is written in such a way that it would take major changes to the text of RDA before this book could become obsolete.

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    Not helpful to cataloging teachers or beginning students
  

*by I***X on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2013*

I am teaching RDA for the first time this semester.  I was looking at the book as much to study the way in presents RDA as to learn about RDA itself.The book is oriented primarily to those who are already familiar with AACR2, which my students are not.  So it did not serve the purpose for which I bought it.Also, I had to write to LC for an explanation of RDA's unprecedented inclusion of cross-references in the term "access point."  The book did not explain THAT.

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    I am only half way through it as I am ...
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2017*

I am only half way through it as I am trying to remember as much as possible. It is so hard to switch from AACR2 after so many years this is very helpful.

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