TY - BOOK AU - Maxwell,Robert L. TI - Maxwell's handbook for RDA: resource description & access : explaining and illustrating RDA: resource description and access using MARC21 SN - 9780838911723 (alk. paper) AV - Z694.15.R47 M39 2013 U1 - 025.32 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chicago PB - ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association KW - Resource description & access KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Resource Description and Access KW - gnd KW - Descriptive cataloging KW - Standards N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Describing manifestations and items (Appendix: facsimiles and reproductions) -- Describing persons -- Describing families -- Describing corporate bodies -- Describing geographic entities -- Describing works (Appendix: series authority records) -- Describing expressions -- Recording relationships -- Appendix A. Printed books and sheets -- Appendix B. Cartographic resources -- Appendix C. Unpublished manuscripts and manuscript collections -- Appendix D. Notated music -- Appendix E. Audio recordings -- Appendix F. Moving image resources -- Appendix G. Two-dimensional graphic resources -- Appendix H. Three-dimensional resources and objects -- Appendix I. Digital resources -- Appendix J. Microform resources -- Appendix K. Serials and integrating resources -- Appendix L. Analytical description N2 - This comprehensive handbook illustrates and applies the new cataloging rules in the MARC21 environment for every type of information format -- from books to electronic materials to music and beyond ER -