The library has also been kind enough to allow me to attend their RDA training sessions for catalogers while I'm interning for the summer. We had one last week and will have another two during August. It was nice to get a preview of what changes will be coming with increasing adoption of RDA.
My take away thoughts from the first session (summarized since I've posted plenty enough today):
RDA is more faithful to the principle of transcription. More often information will be transcribed completely and without abbreviations. More authors will be listed in the statement of responsibility and text in edition or publication statements will be entered as is rather than abbreviated or omitted for brevity.
It's nice to see some shift to taking advantage of the fact that the computer isn't limited in text length to nearly the degree that a printed card is. Though from the RDA examples, it looks like extra punctuation will still be there for no good reason (a : between the title and subtitle fields, a / before the statement of responsibility, etc).
RDA also allows greater flexibility in the sources that information can be drawn from. If the title page doesn't have the authors, but those are on a technical documentation page, then you can use the latter from my understanding.
RDA is also trying to accommodate non-print resources more easily, replacing the $h [GMD] subfield of the 245 field with a few fields that should offer greater specificity. The implementation looks overly complicated to me, but it makes sense to detach the material designation from the title field and allow more clarity/specificity in it.
I'm looking forward to the two remaining RDA training sessions to see what else is changing.
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