n.a metadata content standard for describing books and other library materials and for the creation of authority recordsBerner 1978, 170We will see how this preoccupation with library technique and use of the card form of descriptive format governed the development of the descriptive cataloging rules for making entries in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and in the writing of chapter 10 of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR) (1967).Berner and Haller 1984, 136The most extreme illustration of the isolation of description from arrangement is that of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules II, in which it is recommended that the source of cataloging information be the “whole collection.” In other words, cataloging is to be done from the actual manuscripts, not from one or more finding aids.Weber 1989, 510The well-known library data content standard, the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. rev. (AACR 2), offers detailed instructions for formulating the data that librarians use to create catalog entries (often called bibliographic records) and authority records.AACR2 2002, 1These rules are designed for use in the construction of catalogs and other lists in general libraries of all sizes. They are not specifically intended for specialist and archival libraries, but such libraries are recommended to use the rules as the basis of their cataloguing and to augment their provisions as necessary. The rules cover the description of, and the provision of access points for, all library materials commonly collected at the present time.Gracy and Lambert 2014, 98RDA, which was first published in 2010, is the successor to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2).
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The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules is the predecessor standard to Resource Description and Access. The second edition was commonly abbreviated as AACR2.
