The paper explains the cho/lenges faced by cmaloguers in this oge of Information explosion and
Information Communication Technology ( ICT) and the attendant innovations and trends that are
required to cope in this ne1v em•ironment. Cmaloguing is 110t just building a catalogue, but about
providing users with timely access to il({ormation rele\'Clnt to their needs. The task of ident(fying
resources collected by libraries, results in rich metadata that can he used for many purposes. It involves
describing resources and showing their relmionships to persons, families, corporate bodies and other
resources, thereby enabling users to navigate through {ibraries to quickly get information they need.
The metadata constructed throughout the life cycle of a resource is especially valuable to many types of
users, from creators of resources to publishers, subscription agents, book vendors, resource
aggregators, system vendors, libraries and other institutions, and end users. The new international
cataloguing code, RDA (resource description and access) is discussed in this paper, with a view to meet
.fundamental user tasks in a way thor produces well-formed, interconnected metadata for the digital
environment
