Changes in Cataloguing Rules and Cataloguers’ Job Productivity in Some Selected Academic Libraries in Nigeria

Abstract

The study seeks to investigate the effect of changes in cataloguing rules on cataloguers’ job productivity in some University and Polytechnic libraries in Nigeria. The study aims at identifying how changes in cataloguing rules have affected cataloguing in some selected libraries in Nigeria. Census survey research method was adopted using questionnaire as an instrument for data collection. Result indicates that most librarians (cataloguers) are aware of the changes in cataloguing rules but do not know the exact rules that have being changed. The result further revealed that changes in cataloguing rules do not affect cataloguing activities in libraries in the sense cataloguing activities continues in libraries irrespective of the fact that the revised rules are acquired or not. It was also revealed that most libraries do not embark on retrospective cataloguing in respect to changes in cataloguing rules which could be seen as having a resultant effect on cataloguers’ job productivity.