A Ghost in the Catalog: The Gradual Obsolescence of the Main Entry

Conners, David

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“…While RDA's impact on cataloging various types of content and media should clearly remain a major area for further investigation, issues related to other aspects of RDA's general structure and principles have also been addressed in the cataloging literature. Howarth and Weihs (2008) reviewed a historical debate on the concept of main entry-which had been retained in the initial RDA draft distributed in 2006, but was removed in subsequent revisions-and viewed the decision to eliminate the "rule of three" (which has limited the number of added entries that a cataloger was instructed to make under AACR2 for a work of more than three joint authors) as a positive development that would play to the strengths of current online information retrieval systems (see also Conners, 2008, for a critique of RDA's initial failure to abandon the main entry concept in the current metadata environment). Weihs and Howarth (2008b) also provided an overview of changes in the treatment of uniform titles in the RDA draftnow renamed authorized access points representing works and expressions in the final RDA text.…”

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RDA: Resource description & access—a survey of the current state of the art

Tosaka

Park

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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Resource Description & Access (RDA) is intended to provide a flexible and extensible framework that can accommodate all types of content and media within rapidly evolving digital environments while also maintaining compatibility with the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2). The cataloging community is grappling with practical issues in navigating the transition from AACR2 to RDA; there is a definite need to evaluate major subject areas and broader themes in information organization under the new RDA paradigm. This article aims to accomplish this task through a thorough and critical review of the emerging RDA literature published from 2005 to 2011. The review mostly concerns key areas of difference between RDA and AACR2, the relationship of the new cataloging code to metadata standards, the impact on encoding standards such as Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC), end user considerations, and practitioners' views on RDA implementation and training. Future research will require more in-depth studies of RDA's expected benefits and the manner in which the new cataloging code will improve resource retrieval and bibliographic control for users and catalogers alike over AACR2. The question as to how the cataloging community can best move forward to the post-AACR2/MARC environment must be addressed carefully so as to chart the future of bibliographic control in the evolving environment of information production, management, and use.

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RDA: Resource description & access—a survey of the current state of the art

Tosaka

Park

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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Preparations for Implementation of RDA in New Zealand Public Libraries

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<p>This study examines how New Zealand public libraries will implement the new cataloguing standard of RDA by investigating what preparations for implementation they are making. This study uses a qualitative methodology. The researcher interviewed seven Heads of Cataloguing from public libraries in the lower North Island. These interviews were then analysed to bring out common themes and any differences between interviews. Public libraries in New Zealand are not currently planning on implementing RDA. This will come in the near future when the Library of Congress and then the National Library release their decisions on the implementation of RDA As the last cataloguing change was over thirty years ago, public libraries are likely to be uncertain about what they will need to do to implement this change and how it will affect them. This research will be useful in that it will allow other New Zealand public libraries to see how various libraries are preparing for RDA. This information can then be used to aid in their own decision-making processes.</p>

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A Ghost in the Catalog: The Gradual Obsolescence of the Main Entry

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RDA: Resource description & access—a survey of the current state of the art

RDA: Resource description & access—a survey of the current state of the art

Preparations for Implementation of RDA in New Zealand Public Libraries

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