Includes index.
1. Introduction
2. Describing manifestations and items (Appendix: facsimiles and reproductions)
3. Describing persons
4. Describing families
5. Describing corporate bodies
6. Describing geographic entities
7. Describing works (Appendix: series authority records)
8. Describing expressions
9. Recording relationships
Appendixes. A. Printed books and sheets
B. Cartographic resources
C. Unpublished manuscripts and manuscript collections
D. Notated music
E. Audio recordings
F. Moving image resources
G. Two-dimensional graphic resources
H. Three-dimensional resources and objects
I. Digital resources
J. Microform resources
K. Serials and integrating resources
L. Analytical description.
Maxwell's handbook for RDA : explaining and illustrating RDA: resource description and access using MARC 21 by Robert L. Maxwell. ISBN 9781856048323. Published by Facet Publishing in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.