Full Description
This book provides a snapshot of the implementation in various countries around the world of the international cataloging standard RDA: resource description and access. All stages of implementing a new standard are covered, from initial assessment and impact analysis through translation, staff training, and data migration, to implementation and user orientation. Contributions include the results of detailed research into awareness of the standard in professional groups, differences between catalog metadata produced using RDA and current local standards, and the effect of RDA on the presentation of catalog displays to the end user.
The contributions cover aspects of RDA implementation in Canada, China, German-speaking countries, Iran, Israel, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, and Turkey, and French, German and Spanish translation activity. The information contained will be relevant for many years to come, for those who are intending to implement RDA, review the quality of legacy data, measure the impact of the globalization of cataloguing data, or prepare for education and orientation in international bibliographic standards.
This book was published as a special double issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. China's Road to RDA 3. Are Philippine Librarians Ready for Resource Description and Access (RDA)? The Mindanao Experience 4. RDA: National Library Board Singapore's Learning Journey 5. RDA Implementation Issues in the Iranian National Bibliography: An Analysis of Bibliographic Records 6. Acceptance and Viewpoint of Iranian Catalogers Regarding RDA: The Case of the National Library and Archive of Iran 7. Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of Academic Librarians in Turkey about Resource Description and Access (RDA) 8. RDA in Israel 9. The Adoption of RDA in the German-Speaking Countries 10. Translating RDA into French 11. The German Translation of RDA: Approach and Accomplishment 12. RDA in Spanish: Translation Issues and Training Implications 13. Implementation of RDA to Bibliographic and Authority Records from the LIBRUNAM Catalog at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 14. In the Company of My Peers: Implementation of RDA in Canada 15. Implementing RDA in a Time of Change: RDA and System Migration at RMIT Universit
