RDA Essentials SECTION 1: ELEMENTS 1. Identifying Manifestations and Items 2. Describing Carriers 3. Providing Acquisition and Access Information 4. Identifying Works and Expressions 5. Describing Content 6. Identifying Persons 7. Identifying Families 8. Identifying Corporate Bodies 9. Relationships between Entities 10. Relationships to Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated 11. Relationships between Works and Subjects 12. Relationships between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items 13. Relationships between Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies SECTION 2: GUIDELINES 14. Transcription 15. Numbers Expressed as Numerals or as Words 16. Notes 17. Titles Associated with a Manifestation 18. Statements of Responsibility 19. Place of Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture 20. Name of Producer, Publisher, Distributor, and Manufacturer 21. Date of Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture 22. Titles of Works 23. Names of Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies 24. Dates Associated with Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies 25. Places SECTION 3: CONSTRUCTING ACCESS POINTS 26. Persons 27. Families 28. Corporate Bodies 29. Works 30. Expressions SECTION 4: OTHER ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS 31. Cases Involving Multiple Elements 32. Changes that Result in the Creation of a New Description Maxwell's Handbook for RDA 1. Introduction 2. Describing manifestations and items Appendix: Facsimilies and reproductions 3. Describing persons 4. Describing families 5. Describing corporate bodies 6. Describing geographic entities 7. Describing works Appendix: Series authority records 8. Describing expressions 9. Recording relationships. Appendices: A. Printed books and sheets B. Cartographic resources C. Unpublished manuscripts and manuscript collections D. Notated music E. Audio recordings F. Moving image resources G. Two-dimensional graphic resources H. Three-dimensional graphic resources I. Digital resources J. Microform resources K. Serial and integrating resources L. Analytical description Practical Cataloguing 1. Catalogues and cataloguing standards 2. The FRBRization of the catalogue 3. Bibliographic elements 4. Access points and headings 5. RDA: resource description and access 6. AACR and RDA 7. MARC 21 8. Practical cataloguing: bringing it all together 9. The birth of RDA and the death of MARC? 10. Examples.