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RDA and the Reference Librarian: What to Expect from the New Cataloging Standard
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What internal users of the catalog will find familiar in the new type of records and what will require a learning curve are shed on.Abstract:
Reference librarians' work will be affected by the upcoming change in cataloging standards from the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules to the Resource Description and Access (RDA). Reference librarians were asked to give their perceptions about RDA records. They found that RDA records were comparable in terms of quality and quantity of information. However, terms used in new fields that provide format information lacked clarity. RDA records live compatibly with their Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules counterparts but do have distinctive differences. This study sheds light on what internal users of the catalog will find familiar in the new type of records and what will require a learning curve.read more
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RDA Testing in Triplicate: Kent State University's Experiences Testing RDA
TL;DR: RDA records work at various levels: they are compatible with Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2) records in both public and staff mode; original, copy catalogers, and reference personnel find them sufficient for the work they do; and there is little significant difference between AARC2 and RDA records in the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) environment.
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Resource description and access: cataloging standards affect reference service
TL;DR: This paper is one the few that discusses how RDA may affect reference service and will be useful for providing librarians with a general understanding of the relationship between cataloging and reference and may serve as a starting point for further research.
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RDA Display and the General Material Designation: An Innovative Solution
TL;DR: This article describes a simple and innovative solution, for libraries using MARC-based Integrated Library Systems (ILS), to compensate for the removal of the General Material Designation from individual Resource Description and Access (RDA) bibliographic records in public displays.
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Displaying Content, Media, and Carrier Types in the OPAC: Questions and Considerations
Carol Ou,Sean Saxon +1 more
TL;DR: This article examines the new MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) 336, 337 and 338 fields and how libraries are choosing to display the new fields in their Online Public Access Catalogs, with a specific focus on current practices for libraries using Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III) integrated library systems.
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Beyond Content, Media, and Carrier: RDA Carrier Characteristics
TL;DR: RDA includes a set of lower-level elements called Carrier Characteristics for describing these resource's properties; however, these elements have not enjoyed as much discussion in the professional literature as have the three higher-tier elements.
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What Is FRBR? A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe.
TL;DR: From 1992 to 1995 the IFLA Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) developed an entity relationship model as a generalised view of the bibliographic universe, intended to be independent of any cataloguing code or implementation.
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A Comparison Between the RDA Taxonomies and End-User Categorizations of Content and Carrier
TL;DR: This study investigates how end-users categorize library resources by employing the free-listing technique, commonly used by cognitive scientists and information architects, and results indicate that end-user categorizations of library resources may emphasize other facets, such as purpose, audience, and extent, in addition to content and carrier.
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The Case of AACR2 Versus RDA
TL;DR: The introduction of the Resource Description and Access cataloguing code to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules is considered by Ann Chapman, the Research Officer at UKOLN, and explains why the latter was becoming unsuitable for the digital age.
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Testing resource description and access (RDA) with dublin core
TL;DR: The issues which emerged during the U.S. National Libraries RDA Test and what each institution did to address them are addressed.
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