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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: An in-depth study presenting the new cataloging code, RDA (Resource Description and Access) and its relationship to technology and its origin, what it represents and its implications for cataloging are analyzed.
Abstract: An in-depth study presenting the new cataloging code, RDA (Resource Description and Access) and its relationship to technology. Its origin, what it represents and its implications for cataloging are analyzed. The state of bibliographic control and the foundations of the new cataloging code are reviewed. Details are presented concerning its structure, changes and advantages of being based on the FRBR model. Reference is also made to RDA’s adoption by the international community. Finally, the article sets forth the changes and doubts that RDA prompts. The exhaustive bibliographic review permits the identification of the most significant changes as well as the pros and cons. Likewise, a detailed study of the Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) enables a better understanding of the new code’s instructions, connections and relationships to them.
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TL;DR: A pilot project conducted at the Ohio State University Libraries to contract out the cataloging of Slavic books is described, which examined the quality of bibliographic records produced by the vendor and the comparative costs for cataloging in-house vs. outsourcing.
Abstract: This paper describes a pilot project conducted at the Ohio State University Libraries to contract out the cataloging of Slavic books. Two dimensions were examined in this study : (1) the quality of bibliographic records produced by the vendor ; and (2) the comparative costs for cataloging in-house vs. outsourcing the cataloging.
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TL;DR: In this article, the International Library Review: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 195-216, the authors present a survey of university libraries in Pakistan, focusing on the following issues:
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24 Sep 2019
TL;DR: The ways in which standards and their enactments serve to mediate key community values are revealed, demonstrating the integral nature of values in standards, and position value analysis as a useful methodology in the critical study of standards in all domains.
Abstract: Knowledge organization standards are important community artifacts that set forth agreed upon specifications and protocols, and though they may appear neutral they have been shown to harbor specific perspectives. These perspectives are often covert but hold implications for the ways in which knowledge is conceptualized, organized, and represented. Values are deeply held preferences for ways of acting and ways of being, and represent an effective lens for examining the perspectives embedded in societal practices and artifacts. To date, however, knowledge organization standards have not been approached through formal value analysis. This study addresses this gap through an examination of the influential library standard Resource Description and Access (RDA), specifically focusing on what values are present within this standard, how these values are communicated, and how they are recognized and responded to by practitioners. To address these questions, a qualitative, exploratory, multiphase study was conducted, utilizing value and rhetorical analyses of the text of RDA as well as open-ended interviews with RDA practitioners focused on their interpretations of the document. Findings show that RDA upholds its design principles through the expression of principles-based values and values associated with user needs, communicated through a set of routine structures such as directives and conditionals. In their usage of RDA, catalogers place greater emphasis on values associated with users and their perspectives, and see access as the most important value within this standard. At the same time, the relative absence of asserted community values such as privacy and autonomy illustrates the challenged nature of human values in knowledge organization standards. Findings from this study demonstrate the integral nature of values in standards, and position value analysis as a useful methodology in the critical study of standards in all domains. For the knowledge organization and cultural heritage communities, this work reveals the ways in which standards and their enactments serve to mediate key community values. In raising questions about the role of human values in knowledge organization standards, this study also contributes to ongoing discussions of information ethics and professional values. Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA)
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TL;DR: The on-line cataloging system is eas y to use, efficient, reliable, and cost beneficial.
Abstract: Development and implementation of an off-line catalog card production system and an on-lin e shared cataloging syst e m are described. In off-lin e production , average cost p e r card for 529 ,8 93 catalog cards in finished form and alphabetized for filing was 6.57 cents. An account is given of system design and equipment selection for the on-line system . File organization and pro gra ms are described, and the on-line cataloging system is discussed. The system is eas y to use , efficient, reliable, and cost beneficial.
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