Resource Description and Access

About: Resource Description and Access is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1859 publications have been published within this topic receiving 10957 citations. The topic is also known as: RDA & Resource Description & Access.

Using Koha for cataloging and classification: a case study

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the ways in which online cataloguing is used to provide twenty-first century library and information services to a university community in a developing country, together with the challenges and prospects of such an application. The paper aims to examine the use of the internet to catalogue and classify library materials in the University of Ilorin Library. It looks at the use of the Library of Congress Catalogue in copy cataloguing. This paper also discusses the use of Koha, a free library integrated software to classify and catalogue library resources in the University of Ilorin Library. Design/methodology/approach – The methods used are participant observation, interviews with the senior librarians in the library and visits to another library that uses Koha software. Periodical and online articles were also used to gather information to support this study. Findings – The major problem is incessant power failure and the library is planning to get a heavy ...

Interrelations among Public, School, and Academic Libraries

Abstract: A BOUT eleven years ago Robert T. Grazier accepted an assignment similar to mine today. The resulting paper was published in the January, 1958, issue of Library Trends under the title \"Cooperation among Libraries of Different Types.\" The issue was edited by Ralph Esterquest, who had been director of the Midwest InterLibrary Center when he accepted the editorial assignment. The issue was entitled \"Building Library Resources through Cooperation.\" I dare say that most of the contributors to this Conference have re-examined that issue of Library Trends in quest of perspectives, and even though \"perspective\" is in questionable repute in our time, librarianship can hardly afford to reject it. Grazier encountered some of the same problems that I have faced, one of them being very little hard-headed appraisal in the literature of co-operative programs and experiments involving different types of libraries. We librarians have a marked tendency to write starry-eyed descriptions of innovative (and not so innovative) programs and ideas, but when they fail, or settle down into relatively routine operations, we remain silent. In these times of deification of innovation, it seems almost irreverent to ask whether an innovative program may fail or succeed-or even what its purpose is. Add the holy water of \"cooperation,\" and innovative co-operation becomes unassailable. Parenthetically, it must be conceded that we have made little progress toward the evaluation of library service in general, so it is not surprising that systematic, objective appraisals of co-operative programs are few. The problem is one of defining relevant criteria in terms of which to measure attainment or non-attainment of objectives. In an effort to compensate for the paucity of literature, Grazier wrote to what he termed an \"unscientific sample\" of some thirty-odd \"metropolitan libraries,\" about half public and half academic, asking for information about cooperative relationships involving more than one type of library. More specifically he inquired concerning objectives, degrees of success and failure, problems, and factors related to success and failure. With a view to using Grazier's facts and interpretations as bench marks, I wrote a similar letter to the same libraries and a few others. My principal sources, therefore, are: Grazier's paper and the replies he received; some thirtyodd responses to my letters of inquiry; a considerable number of state Library Services and Construction Act plans and program reports (Genevieve Casey had recently collected such materials from the state library agencies of all fifty states); and all of the recent state and regional surveys of resources and needs that I could lay hands on, from the Pacific Northwest Library Association's Library Development Project Reports of 1960 to Ralph Blasingame's Survey of Ohio Libraries (1968). It soon became apparent that the last decade has produced a new \"spirit of ecumenicity\" among the librarians of