Analysis of the RDA standard: a applied study on theses and dissertation in literature and cinema

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Raquel Bernadete
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Ana Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8645396
• topic: RDA. Resource Description and Access. Cataloging rules. Bibliographic record; Library Science; Information Science; Librarianship; Cataloging.; Regras de catalogação. Representação da informação. Registro bibliográfico. Tese e dissertação.; Catalogação

The Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the new guideline for cataloging developed for to replace the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition (AACR2) with the purpose of to improve information retrieval. In this sense, this research aims to analyze how bibliographic records of theses and dissertations on areas of literature and cinema will be modified with the RDA standards. The research is characterized as qualitative applied exploratory and descriptive and used as method the case study. The results of the study pointed out that the bibliographic description presents significant changes in referring to the format, content and media of a resource. Based on the analysis of the records and the results obtained, it can be concluded that the cataloger needs to spend more attention, knowledge and time in your practicing, suggesting to this professional the need for continuing education.