Designing policy for copy cataloging in RDA

The Library of Congress and other national libraries will adopt Resource Description and Access (RDA) on March 31, 2013, but RDA is already an established cataloging code. Copy catalogers are likely to encounter RDA records in the near future, and need local standards to guide their work. This article provides technical service personnel who establish policies with the information needed to establish standards for copy cataloging RDA records, particularly monographs. An example of one successful standard, that of Kent State University Libraries, is provided for readers to adopt or adapt.

► Copy catalogers will increasingly encounter RDA records.
► It is advisable to establish local standards for both AACR2 and RDA.
► An example of copy cataloging standards for RDA for monographs is provided.