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Reconsidering the cataloging
treatment of reproductions
The
cataloging treatment of reproductions at LC is being reconsidered as part of a
full-scale reevaluation of cataloging policy decisions necessitated by the
upcoming test of Resource Description and Access (RDA). The basic approach to reproductions is the same in
RDA as it is in AACR2, but LC and many other US libraries continue to follow an
AACR1 approach as documented in the Library of Congress Rule Interpretation
(LCRI) for Chapter 11 (microform reproductions) and LCRI 1.11A (non-microform
reproductions).
In
order to perform a more accurate test of RDA's provisions, those LC catalogers
participating in the US National Library Test of RDA will follow RDA as written
for the period of the RDA test (Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2009), which entails basing the
record for a reproduction on the item in hand and providing information about
the original in the record when the decision is to have separate records for
the original and the reproduction.
A
discussion paper is available at http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/reproductions.pdf
that provides some background information on how LC’s policies came to
differ from AACR2’s treatment of reproductions, possible approaches to
implementing an AACR2/RDA-compatible treatment, and LC’s decisions on how its
RDA testers will treat reproductions during the US RDA test.
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