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Links to CONSER Documentation

Links to CONSER Documentation

By Heather Baker
Feb 19, 2021

Scope: Links to CONSER documentation needed for cataloging serials

Contact: Jacquie Samples  

Unit: Metadata & Discovery Strategy

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Links to Documentation

  1. CONSER Documents: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/index.html

These three key documents to keep at hand as you catalog. The first walks through how to create an original record for a serial, including a decision tree. The other two documents provide tabular Metadata Application Profiles, MARC-to-RDA and RDA-to-MARC.

    1. CONSER RDA Cataloging Checklist: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/documents/CONSER-RDA-checklist.doc\\

    2. CONSER RDA Core Elements: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/documents/CONSER-RDA-core-elements.doc

    3. CONSER MARC21 to RDA Core Elements: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/documents/CONSER-MARC-to-RDA.doc
  2. Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) support documents

These documents address specific topics of interest such as how to maintain records in a hybrid environment; and how to express relationships between work-expressions or between manifestations or how to express relationships between a manifestation and creators/contributors.

    1. Provider-neutral guidelines: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/scs/documents/PCC-PN-guidelines.html

    2. PCC Task group reports (final): http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/RDA%20Task%20Groups.html
      • Post-Implementation Hybrid Records Guidelines TG (2012)
      • Interim Hybrid Records Guidelines TG (2011)
      • Relationship Designator Guidelines TG (2012)
      • Access Points for Expressions Task Group (2012)

c. Guidelines for Working with RDA and non-RDA records prior to implementation of RDA: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/PCC%20RDA%20guidelines/Bib-Interim-RDA.html

      • Task Group on Hybrid Integrating Resource Records
      • Individual guide sheets from the Interim Hybrid Records Guidelines (2011)

d. Guide sheets: http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/RDA%20Interim%20Policies%20and%20Best%20Practices.html (this link no longer works)

      •  264 field:
      • 046 and 3XX fields in NARs and SARs


3. Other documents (Miscellaneous)

    1. International cataloging principles: http://www.ifla.org/publications/statement-of-international-cataloguing-principles

    2. OCLC policy statement on RDA cataloging in WorldCat: http://www.oclc.org/en-US/rda/new-policy.html

    3. JSC Meeting Outcomes: http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/2012-documents-summary.pdf  (summary)
      http://www.rda-jsc.org/workingnew.html (“sec final”--text of the changes)

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