Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of Academic Librarians in Turkey about<i>Resource Description and Access</i>(RDA)

Atılgan, Doğan; Özel, Nevzat; Çakmak, Tolga

doi:10.1080/01639374.2014.945023

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“…A number of individual institutions related their own adoption decisions, several national surveys reported on issues faced in their countries, and studies of how RDA was being implemented in specific types of libraries were conducted. 26 Perhaps not surprisingly, training continued to be an area of great concern, particularly the attendant costs, as several authors commented on the continuing need for affordable education options. 27 Consequently, many institutions relied heavily on LC's free training materials.…”

Section: Trainingmentioning

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RDA Implementation in Large US Public Libraries

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2018

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This survey sought to investigate how the transition to the new cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA), has been handled in one hundred of the largest US public libraries, specifically examining whether catalogers believe that some of RDA’s major goals have been met, and how some of the anticipated impacts of RDA implementation have been handled. A large majority of these libraries have implemented RDA for original cataloging, but respondents also generally believe that RDA has failed to meet some of its most important goals, primarily ease of use and cost-effectiveness.

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Section: Trainingmentioning

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“…33 Technical difficulties were also cited as an impediment. 34 Several papers noted the importance of existing national library structures and cataloging policies in aiding RDA adoption in some European countries, while the lack thereof in Turkey created difficulties. 35 The levels of adoption within individual libraries also varied.…”

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“…Fabian pointed out that the development of RDA has evolved to be 'a continuous exchange of ideas' which could be used as a basis for cooperative work when developing other kinds of international library standards (Fabian, 2016: 339). Other articles that provide a broader context include an examination of the awareness of RDA of academic libraries in Turkey (Atılgan et al, 2014) and an overview of the current cataloguing rules in Slovenia where a wait-and-see approach was taken until more international institutions start following the standard (Kanic, 2014).…”

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“…This was regardless of whether they are early adopters, such as Germany and the Netherlands, have only expressed interest, such as Bulgaria and Serbia, or have chosen an alternative to an RDA implementation, such as Poland and France. Some of the countries, such as Turkey, Latvia and Germany, have either catalogued in AACR2 or considered the adoption of AACR2 prior to the development of RDA, thus an adoption seemed to be a natural progression (Atılgan et al, 2014;Behrens et al, 2014;Goldberga et al, 2014). Table 2 shows what rules were used in Europe prior to RDA (Behrens et al, 2014;Goldberga et al, 2014;Kanic, 2014;Kieffer, 2012;O'Dwyer, 2013;Willer and Barbaric, 2012).…”

Section: Overview Of Rda In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There were, however, other issues noted, such as the lack of supporting structures and human resources (Milanova, 2016;Savic, 2016, personal communication), outdated information systems (Strishenetes, 2016) and the lack of understanding and opposition to change (Makke, 2016). Still, there are some countries, such as Belgium, Portugal, Turkey and Ukraine, which although they have not decided on an implementation, are preparing informative and training sessions for their cataloguing communities (Atılgan et al, 2014;Silva et al, 2016;ULA, 2014;ÜNAK, 2016;Verhegge, 2015). Interestingly, although one of the advantages of RDA is commonly considered to be its flexibility, there are still concerns about its applicability in various cultural contexts.…”

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Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions

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2017

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This research explored the implementations and perceptions of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloguing standard in Europe. It refers to the development and implementation of the standard among Anglo-American libraries and draws comparisons between them. It examines the spread and application of RDA throughout Europe both by analysing the available literature and by conducting interviews with professionals at 12 European national libraries.The results highlight the issues faced by the European institutions and the unique perspectives that emerge from implementing RDA in different languages and cultures. European institutions demonstrate a higher level of involvement and interest in the development of RDA and a stronger desire to work towards RDA interoperability and alignment with the cultural heritage sector. The European implementation drives forward the internationalisation of RDA by actively seeking solutions to the issues in the new standard arising from the cultural and linguistic diversity.

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Cataloguing practices at university libraries

Çakmak

2019

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Purpose This study aims to analyse current practices and cooperation between the Turkish university libraries related to cataloguing processes and present cataloguing librarians’ evaluations about clarity and comprehensiveness of the given information in library catalogues. Design/methodology/approach In line with the literature review, a Web-based questionnaire was developed concerning the cataloguing practices implemented at university libraries in Turkey. The questionnaire was submitted to 316 cataloguing librarians. In all, 104 cataloguing librarians from 61 different libraries responded to the survey. The collected data were analysed through descriptive statistics. The responses given to some open-ended questions were assessed with respective expressions presented verbatim in the study and some of them visualised via VOSViewer software. Findings The findings reflect that analysed university libraries implement different cataloguing processes. It is seen that some libraries use the necessary systems and services related to cataloguing and classification while others use individual solutions without using such systems and services. Findings reveal that there is cooperation between the analysed libraries about sharing catalogue records. In this regard, it is understood that cataloguing librarians mostly prefer transferring catalogue records from the catalogues of university libraries they trusted. Findings also indicate that analysed librarians think that the descriptive information provided via Online Public Access Catalogues are in moderate level in terms of clarity and comprehensibility. Originality/value The study contributes to the existing literature of a limited number of relevant studies by establishing the baseline pertaining to cataloguing processes undertaken at university libraries in Turkey.

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Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of Academic Librarians in Turkey aboutResource Description and Access(RDA)

Cited by 4 publications

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RDA Implementation in Large US Public Libraries

RDA Implementation in Large US Public Libraries

Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions

Cataloguing practices at university libraries

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