Organización de la información con RDA : su presencia en los catálogos de bibliotecas de América Latina

Abstract

The organization of information and cataloguing is an area of study in constant evolution; resources of information have been organized through diverse standards such as the Cataloguing Anglo-American Rules (CAR) and, today through Resource Description and Access (RDA). This standard of cataloguing was developed with basis on the model of FBRD, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, which provides a new conceptual frame for responding to the needs of users of bibliographic data. Additionally, FRBR has been complemented with other models such as the FRAD, Functional Requirements for Authority Data, centered in the uniform handling of the data from authors and institutions registered in the authority catalogs. The presentation and discussion of this thematic were of great richness for obtaining a better comprehension of the application of the RDA standard and the development of catalogs in Latin American libraries. We are confident that this publication will contribute to the knowledge about the application of RDA in the libraries of our region, but also hope that it also will constitute a referent for those ones which find themselves in diverse stages of its adoption and implementation. We also trust that this publication will become a source of first order to support the professional practice of the teaching and research in this important area of Library Science and Studies of Information.