Open Access Kent State (OAKS)

Parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience one of the most stressful events of their lives. At times, they are unable to participate fully, if at all, in the care of their infant. Parents in the NICU have a need to participate in the care of their infant to attain the parental role. Parental reading to infants in the NICU is an intervention that can connect the parent and infant and offers a way for parents to participate in caregiving. This intervention may have many benefits and may positively affect the parent-infant relationship.

Kent State University participated in three different Resource Description and Access (RDA) testing opportunities: one formal, one informal and format-specific, and one informal general test. This article presents the experiences of University Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science participants. Based on multiple experiences with RDA testing, we find that RDA records work on various levels: they are compatible with Angflo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition(AACR2) records in public and staff mode; original, copy catalogers, and reference personnel find them sufficient for the work they do; and there is little significant difference between AACR2 and RDA records in the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) environment.