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Quantitative remote sensing in thermal infrared : theory and applications / Huajun Tang, Zho-Liang Li. (OCLC #861323363)

Authority records for series include the library’s practice on whether the series should be ‘traced’; that is, should records for titles in the series include an authorized access point for the series? In MARC, these appear as an 8XX, for example:

    830 _0 ǂa Springer remote sensing/photogrammetry.

The decision to trace would appear as t:

    645 ǂa __ t ǂ5 YOUNG

The decision not to trace would appear as n:

    645 ǂa __ n ǂ5 YOUNG
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Yield gains in major U.S. field crops / Stephen Smith, Brian Diers, James Specht, and Brett Carver, editors. (OCLC #880168370)

A book containing multiple chapters may be considered a collection of separate works, with a whole-part or “contains” relationship. The rules for describing this relationship in RDA are in Chapter 25, Related Works. In general this can be recorded with a statement like:

Contains: Barley -- Cotton -- Cool-season forages.

As we are encoding the record in MARC, the “Contains:” phrase is not needed; it is specified by the first indicator of the 505. More details can be found in the LC-PCC PS for RDA 25.1.1.3.

Though recording this relationship is not required, I did not find doing so for this book burdensome, and the resulting statement was dense with helpful keywords:

505 0_ ǂa Barley -- Cotton -- Cool-season forages -- Lettuce
  and spinach -- Edible grain legumes -- Maize -- Peanut -- Potato
  -- Rangeland and warm-season forage grasses -- Rice -- Sorghum --
  Soybean -- Sugarbeet -- Sugarcane -- Sunflower -- Wheat.
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RDA Tip of the Week: Relator terms for Meetings

Most relator terms in an RDA MARC record will appear in a ǂe of the access point field. For example:

100 1_ ǂa Snicket, Lemony, ǂe author.
700 1_ ǂa Klassen, Jon, ǂe illustrator.
710 2_ ǂa IBM de Chile, ǂe sponsoring body.

The added entry field for Meeting names, 711, uses ǂe for a different element (“subordinate unit”), so in that field, the relator term goes in a ǂj. For example, if you want to add an access point for a conference as a sponsoring body, it is encoded like:

711 2_ ǂa AAPG Convention ǂd (1992 : ǂc Calgary, Alberta),
         ǂj sponsoring body.

Similarly, subfield ǂj is also used for the relator term in 111, 611 and 811.