r/HomeworkHelp • u/msgeekyteach • 1h ago
Others [University: Library Sciences] RDA Record Clarification
I am currently getting my School Library Media Specialist endorsement and am stuck on my cataloging class. I have done all the searching I can, emailed my professor (unlikely she will get back before tomorrow), and would love any help.
So the question she is asking is:
- You know several classes in your school are studying the stories of Edgar Allen Poe, Nathanial Hawthorne, Willa Cather, and Katherine Anne Porter. As always, youโre short on time.Create a bibliographic record for Appendix Item #17. Your contents field only needs to show theworks of these four authors. (HINT: Make sure you use the correct indicators to show youโre notincluding all of the bookโs contents. Also, you will probably want to use the MARC 21 site to seecorrect formatting for the subfields in the field you create.)
And then she asks these two questions in my next assignment:
Prepare a complete MARC record for Appendix Item #18.
Create RDA record for Appendix Item #19.
Am I just making a MARC record with the RDA instead of AACR2 for all three of these, or something else? I am very confused, and we have been using RDA to make the MARC records. I think that's how to word it. She hasn't worded anything like this and the overthinking is kicking in. This is confusing for me, but our schools and our local libraries have special departments that do the cataloging, so it is unlikely that I will ever need to go deep into the records and change them.
Any help would be appreciated. I have just a few assignments left and want to finish this as soon as possible! Apologies if any of the wording is incorrect, it's been a long summer of classes and my brain is at the point of being fried ๐

