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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.
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TL;DR: Article discussing the notion that viewing MARC from a modern technological perspective leads to interpretive problems such as a confusion of "bibliographic data" with "catalog records."
Abstract: Article discussing the notion that viewing MARC from a modern technological perspective leads to interpretive problems such as a confusion of "bibliographic data" with "catalog records"
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TL;DR: The Medical Library Association’s Standards for Hospital Libraries 2002 has been developed as a guide for hospital administrators, librarians, and accrediting bodies to ensure that hospitals have the resources and services to effectively meet their needs for knowledge-based information.
Abstract: The Medical Library Association’s Standards for Hospital Libraries 2002 has been developed as a guide for hospital administrators, librarians, and accrediting bodies to ensure that hospitals have the resources and services to effectively meet their needs for knowledge-based information. Specific requirements for knowledge-based information include that the library be a separate department with its own budget. Knowledge-based information in the library should be directed by a qualified librarian who functions as a department head and is a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. The standards define the role of the medical librarian and the links between knowledge-based information and other functions such as patient care, patient education, performance improvement, and education. In addition, the standards address the development and implementation of the knowledge-based information needs assessment and plan, the promotion and publicity of the KBI services, and the physical space and staffing requirements. The role, qualifications, and functions of a hospital library consultant are outlined. The health sciences library is positioned to play a key role in the hospital. The increasing use of the Internet and new information technologies by medical, nursing, and allied health staffs, patients and the community require new strategies, strategic planning, allocation of adequate resources, and selection and evaluation of appropriate information resources and technologies. The Hospital Library Standards Committee has developed this document as a guideline to be used in facing these challenges together.
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TL;DR: It is submitted that cataloging and classifi cation (a.k.a. bibliographic control) is the only candidate to be the center of educa tion for librarianship.
Abstract: Learning is, in great part, a matter of training the mind to analyze and organize the data, information, and knowledge with which it is presented throughout life. The vehicle for that train ing should be rigorous, intellectually satis fying, coherently structured, and of practical usefulness. By that standard, I would submit that cataloging and classifi cation (a.k.a. bibliographic control) is the only candidate to be the center of educa tion for librarianship. Before expanding on this idea and ex ploring its ramifications, I would like to share my thoughts on library education in general. As I see it, the problems with American library education stem from two great issues. The first is the unresolved matter of the difference between education for librarianship and training to work in a library. The blame can be divided equally. On the one hand, we have library educa tors who deride libraries and librarians from an invincible position of practical ig norance. On the other, we also have many librarians who expect recent library gradu ates to be trained to work in their libraries and who dismiss all research/publication and professional activities as tomfoolery and egotistical puffery. The second great problem is that of the pernicious and pointless pseudo-discipline
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