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$f probably ought to have been redefined as part of the RDA MARC revisions.  Something like:

$f - Date of an expression

Date of expression used in an expression access point.
It’s not to late to make MARC change proposals!

Adam Schiff
University of Washington Libraries

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Re: “Date of work”.  A fine example of “work” in the extra-RDA context meaning something other than “Work” in the RDA/FRBR/LRM context.  The kicker here is that the MARC definition of the bib X00 $f<http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdx00.html> begins: “Date of publication used with …”

As a former RDA trainer, I agree with others that RDA training missed the mark on this matter since the early days.  Ditto differentiating same-language expressions within access points.

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Mark K. Ehlert                                 Alma: NA02
Cataloging and Metadata Librarian          Primo: MT NA01
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, University of St. Thomas
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I think one problem is the structure of RDA itself. The info is in there, but it is hard to fully connect the dots to determine how to properly construct and qualify access points. It doesn’t help that resources like OCLC bib formats have confusing examples. For example, in the 7xx field help, $f is called “date of work” and has this example:  700 02 ǂi Container of (expression): ǂa Teresa, ǂc of Avila, Saint, ǂd 1515-1582. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂl English. ǂf 1998. Yes, that could in fact be valid expression heading if there was only 1 selection of Teresa’s works, but it probably should be ǂa Teresa, ǂc of Avila, Saint, ǂd 1515-1582. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (1998) ǂl English, which is also an expression heading, but with the work part properly disambiguated. I can’t blame people who see this and follow the format.

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