RDA, Resource Description and Access

Special monographic issue of the journal JLIS (vol.7 n.2)
Table of Contents:

- Editorial. The international diffusion of RDA: a wide overview on the new guidelines (Bianchini, Guerrini)
- RDA, or, The Long Journey of the Catalog to the Digital Ages (Tillett)
- The Making of RDA (Delsey)
- RDA e ISBD: history of a relationship (Escolano, Rodrguez)
- RDA: a content standard to ensure the quality of data (Bianchini, Guerrini)
- RDA: the Emperor's New Code (Gorman)
- RDA: a critical analysis based on cataloguing theory and practice (Petrucciani)
- Cataloguing, a necessary evil: critical aspects of RDA (Galeffi, Sardo)
- Implementing RDA at the Library of Congress (Morris,Wiggins)
- RDA as a tool for the bibliographic transition: the French position (Leresche, Boulet)
- RDA in Germany, Austria and Germanspeaking Switzerland - a new standard not only for libraries (Behrens, Aliverti, Schaffners)
- RDA: analyses, considerations and activities by the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU) (Butt)
- RDA content in multiple languages (Kuhagen)
- Towards an internationalization of RDA management and development (Dunsire)
- Things in the World. The integration process of archival descriptions in intercultural systems (Valacchi)