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Title: Directors' Views of the Future of Cataloguing in Australia and New Zealand: A Survey (Survey)
Author : Australian Academic & Research Libraries
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 213 KB

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In May 2007 a survey was sent out to directors in Australian and New Zealand libraries to determine their perceptions of the future of cataloguing. A director is defined here as the manager of the library division encompassing cataloguing operations, who is preferably at least one step removed from cataloguing and preferably not the head cataloguer. Public email lists were used to invite directors or their institutions to express their interest in completing the survey. Of the 105 directors who initially expressed interest in participating, 68 (64.8%) responded. The survey was conducted online using SurveyMonkey software. Anonymity of respondents was built in, and in the final reporting of results, words identifying an institution were replaced with non-identifying terms. The survey was not intended to be a comprehensive statistical study, but a testing of views, attitudes and beliefs. Staff in all types of libraries, including school libraries, were invited to participate. It was important and useful to receive responses from businesses and public, special, state and national libraries as well as from libraries in the tertiary education sector. Along with their differences in staff size, responsibilities and priorities, the survey results were able to bring out the issues that libraries have in common, by analysing all of the responses together. Full survey results are available on the web. (1)