Preliminary training for RDA: A survey of cataloging department heads
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...Sanner (2012) conducted a survey of cataloging department heads to attempt to gauge what level of preliminary training cataloging staff in academic libraries are receiving for the RDA transition....
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...As discussed earlier, Sanner (2012) suspected that research libraries should have been better prepared for the adoption of RDA due to their size and leadership in the library community....
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...…however, may provide good evidence to support Sanner’s idea that they are in the forefront, in both resource and staff, of preparing for RDA implementation and are thus more interested in providing opinions on issues and problems they have identified with the new cataloging code (Sanner, 2012)....
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...By contrast, Sanner (2012) surveyed cataloging department managers in large U.S. academic libraries participating in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)....
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...The predominance of survey participants from research libraries, however, may provide good evidence to support Sanner’s idea that they are in the forefront, in both resource and staff, of preparing for RDA implementation and are thus more interested in providing opinions on issues and problems they have identified with the new cataloging code (Sanner, 2012)....
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...…comparison, the survey was designed to ask the same questions tested in the previous studies as closely as possible (Danskin, 2010; Kiorgaard, 2010; Sanchez, 2011; Sanner, 2012; Todd et al., 2010; TSIG RDA Training Needs Assessment Working Group, 2010; U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee, 2011)....
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"Preliminary training for RDA: A sur..." refers background in this paper
...…set of rules; commenting on the more frequent use of cataloger judgment; and overviews of principles, structural changes, and philosophical changes (Hitchens & Symons, 2009, p. 693) have all been included in the reported RDA training sessions, with a specific emphasis on departures from previous…...
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...However, Hitchens and Symons (2009) observe: Catalogers . . . prepared for AACR2 . . . by comparing structure and sequence of operations, highlighting departures from the previous set of rules, and commenting on the use of more cataloger judgment....
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...…for and implementing training; comparing the structure and sequence of operations; highlighting departures from the previous set of rules; commenting on the use of more cataloger judgment; overviews of principles, structural changes, and philosophical changes (Hitchens & Symons, 2009, p. 693)....
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...It shows that the library cataloging community is following Hitchens and Symons’ (2009) recommendations for RDA training to ensure a successful adoption of RDA....
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...A recent survey by Sanchez (2011) solicited responses from catalog librarians and sought to “capture feelings toward RDA and AACR2 and its implementation, as well as facts and knowledge levels of respondents” (p....
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...As Hopkins and Edens (1986) state in Research Libraries and Their Implementation of AACR2, three factors were responsible for this fear: (1) the content of the new code itself (2) the decision of the Library of Congress to stop the practice of superim- position which it had adopted in 1967 to ease…...
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