Cataloging and Managing Film and Video Collections: A Guide to Using RDA and MARC21

This guide is ALA Publishing’s latest format-specific RDA handbook. Unlike its predecessor, AACR2, RDA does not have individual chapters for specific formats, but instead, it treats all formats together with a few format-specific additional guidelines or exceptions scattered throughout where warranted. As a result, format-specific handbooks such as this fill an important need.

As the title implies, the focus of the work is how to create RDA records for video and film using MARC21, the current standard for sharing cataloguing data. To accomplish this, Higgins divides the video cataloguing elements into three chapters: Production and Distribution, Cast and Crew; Content;...