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Development Of Resource Description And Access (Rda): The New Cataloging Standard, Shahrzad Khosrowpour
Development Of Resource Description And Access (Rda): The New Cataloging Standard, Shahrzad Khosrowpour
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Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a new standard for describing and accessing information specifically designed for the digital environment. It is a shift from Anglo American Cataloging Rules, AACR2 and it aims to provide a more user friendly service to library users in locating information in the library online catalogs. It is also targeting to facilitate a cataloging standard which can be shared globally and be edited simultaneously by the catalogers and other users when needed. There are similarities as well as differences between these two cataloging standards.Since the development of RDA started in 2005, there has been a …