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Are Philippine Librarians Ready for Resource Description and Access (RDA)? The Mindanao Experience

2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 52; Issue: 6-7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01639374.2014.891164

1544-4554

Annabelle Paredes Acedera,

Digital and Traditional Archives Management

AbstractThis study aimed to find out the level of readiness of Mindanao librarians to use Resource Description and Access (RDA), which has been prescribed and adopted by the Philippine Professional Regulatory Board for Librarians (PRBFL). The majority of librarians are aware of the PRBFL prescription and adoption. Librarians who received more RDA training and felt that their RDA training was adequate and were more comfortable with the use of RDA as compared with those who received little or no RDA training. An important finding of the study is that most Mindanao libraries do not have access to the RDA Toolkit.KEYWORDS: descriptive cataloging standardscataloging surveysResource Description and Access (RDA)cataloging administration/management Notes1Resource Description & Access: RDA (Chicago: American Library Association, 2010–).2Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (2002 revision with 2005 update). Prepared under the direction of the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (Chicago: American Library Association, 2005).3Yuji Tosaka and Jung-ran Park, “RDA: Resource Description & Access—A Survey of the Current State of the Art,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64, no. 4 (2013): 651–662.4Mary Beth Weber and Fay Angela Austin, Describing Electronic, Digital, and Other Media Using AACR2 and RDA: A How-to-do-it Manual and CD-ROM for Libraries (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2011).5Anne Welsh and Sue Batley, Practical Cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC 21 (London: Facet Publishing, 2012).6Alison Hitchens and Ellen Symons, “Preparing Catalogers for RDA Training,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 47, no. 8 (2009): 691–707.7Chris Oliver, Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics (Chicago: American Library Association, 2010).8Professional Regulatory Board for Librarians, Resolution No. 4. Prescription and Adoption of the “International Cataloging Principles” and “Resource Description and Access” as the Technical Standards for Organizing Resources, Items and Objects for Philippine Libraries (2012).9SWON Libraries Consortium, “Resource Description & Access (RDA) Survey Results,” http://www.swonlibraries.org/content/resource-description-access-rda-survey-results (accessed February 1, 2014).10TSIG RDA Training Needs Assessment Working Group of the Canadian Library Association, “Survey,” http://rdaincanada.wikispaces.com/Survey (accessed May 19, 2013).11American Library Association, RDA Toolkit (Chicago: American Library Association, 2010-).12American Library Association, RDA Toolkit (Chicago: American Library Association, 2010-).