Implementing AACR and AACR2 : A Personal Perspective and Lessons Learned

Abstract

As we move toward implementing
RDA: Resource Description and Access
, I have been pondering how we might manage the transition to new cataloging rules effectively. I was a practicing cataloger when
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
, 2nd ed., was implemented and remember it as a traumatic process. The published literature that I found focused on the impact of the then-new rules on specific formats and genres, but no one seems to have addressed the process of implementation and what type of training worked well (or did not). After a bit of sleuthing, I found a pertinent presentation by Arlene G. Taylor, which she graciously agreed to repurpose as this guest editorial.
—Peggy Johnson