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CHICAGO — Serials and continuing resources present a variety of unique challenges in bibliographic management, from special issues and unnumbered supplements to recording the changes that a long-running periodical can experience over time. Ed Jones, a serials authority in the field and a major contributor to the 3R Project, offers updated guidance in the new second edition of “,” published by Editions. Framing the practice within the structure of the IFLA LRM conceptual model on which RDA is now based, and its new modelling of serials, this resource:

• introduces the concept of diachronic work and explains how serials, as a type of diachronic work, can be described using the new attribute element extension plan;
• explores new developments after the completion of the 3R Project, with references to AACR2 as a touchstone;
• introduces the new term work group and demonstrates its usefulness in enabling relationships and supporting collocation;
• demonstrates how serials catalogers' work fits in the cooperative context of OCLC, CONSER, and NACO; and
• presents examples of how RDA records can ultimately engage with the Semantic Web.

Jones has been active in serials cataloging during the whole of his professional career. He has represented various institutions on the CONSER Operations Committee and has served on many CONSER and Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) committees and task groups, including as CONSER representative to the PCC Policy Committee and cochair of the PCC Standing Committee on Standards (SCS). He is currently cochair of the SCS Task Group on CONSER Policies for Official RDA in MARC. He has spoken extensively on RDA and its underlying conceptual models over the years, serving as an RDA advisor for the Original RDA Toolkit and more recently chairing the Serials Task Force of the RSC Aggregates Working Group during the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project. In 2019 he received the Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS).

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