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https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/cataloging-correctly-kids-introduction-tools-and-practices-sixth-edition

What Every RDA User Should Know About Children's Cataloging
  
This American summer at ALA Digital Reference, access to education is our 
priority. Forums, webinars, and blog interviews with RDA educators are all 
scheduled into our autumn. With that priority in mind, we recently asked Nassau 
Library System cataloger Michele Zwierski - author of the new book Cataloging 
Correctly for Kids [ 
https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/cataloging-correctly-kids-introduction-tools-and-practices-sixth-edition
 ] - a few questions about the role of RDA in current children's cataloging 
practices. Here is how she enlightened us: 
  
ALA: Tell us about the state of children’s cataloging generally. What should 
RDA catalogers who are interested in it but don’t specialize in it know?
  
MZ: I think that the state of children’s cataloging is, for the most part, 
reflective of the state of all cataloging today. As a cataloger, I am trying to 
provide the best information to users as quickly as possible in a format that 
is consistent and accurate. During the pandemic, public catalogs have been used 
more frequently, as many library users switched to accessing library 
collections remotely. Sometimes the only way users could access collections was 
online. Catalogs that contain consistent, correct records perform better.
  
Catalogers who do not normally work with children’s resources, should, as with 
all their bibliographic record creations, keep the user front and center. How 
would a child search for this resource in the catalog? What concepts does this 
resource showcase that could be of interest to parents or educators? RDA allows 
catalogers to more effectively meet users’ needs. 
  
Children’s collections are often the first place where new formats show up, and 
as a result, children’s librarians will always present technical services 
departments with the most challenges, such as locally created materials or new 
shelf arrangement ideas. Catalogers not acquainted with children’s library 
services should not be afraid to improvise. It is important as a cataloger to 
always support the service initiatives of the subject specialists, even if it 
means leaving your comfort zone.
  
CCK6 does provide insight and information for anybody working with children’s 
materials regardless of level of cataloging expertise or experience with 
children’s resources .
  
ALA: What inspired you to incorporate a discussion of RDA into this edition of 
your book on children’s cataloging? 
  
MZ: Knowing about the existing cataloging standards is key to efficiently 
building an online catalog. As a cataloger, I work with a lot of copy 
cataloging. When a change happens, often I see it first in a record created by 
another institution. This could be a new format, a change in the form of a 
creator’s name, or a change in cataloging standards.
  
Recognizing changes is the first step. The next step would be acting on those 
changes. If many copy cataloging records are coming in that reflect a change in 
a cataloging standard, you must decide locally on how to proceed. Do you update 
your editing procedures to incorporate this new standard? Would these changes 
make the catalog better? Are there any advantages for the cataloger? Are there 
any advantages for the user? How does this new cataloging piece look and 
operate in your ILS? In CCK6, I hope that we present some fundamental 
information, so that a reader might understand that knowing something about RDA 
will be valuable when making local decisions. 
  
ALA: What does the RDA implementation of LRM mean for catalogers of children’s 
resources?
  
MZ: In my own understanding of LRM, I feel as though this is another step in 
the process of refreshing RDA with a goal of making our cataloging data widely 
usable. When we start seeing vendors build products that take advantage of RDA 
and LRM, that is when I will

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