Assignment 1 back

Assignment 1 came back while on holidays and I confesses the heart was beating quite fast while opening. The assignment had been a challenging one and one unlike others (the RDA part) that I had done before.
Interestingly in the RDA section I did the best on the third resource which was the only one that I did not have a student example of. Some of the things I had altered due to the HD students work but what this taught me was to do it myself first and to trust my instincts (changing things at the last moment is never a good idea! And that these types of assignments are nearlly impossible to edit and check later without redoing so go slow and get it right first time.
However, on the whole it was a pretty interesting assignment and while I appreciate RDA I don't think i'll be rushing out looking for cataloguing jobs.

RDA and assessment 1

The second part of our first assessment is the cataloguing of items using Resource Description and Access (RDA). It's an interesting process and has required some immersion in the RDA Toolkit. In the end I have found it useful to carefully go through each of the relevant sections and attempt to map them.

It's good to see how this works and the ways in which you approach resource description using RDA. Also interesting are the fundamentals behind it - which are addressed in the essay component. Its been a challenging assessment but quite a good one - hold on for updates once feedback returned.

Having said this though, as most library systems have the capacity to import data one wonders if there will ever be a need for such cataloguing in the average school library.