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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.: a review article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Trevor Fawcett
Trevor Fawcett*
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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Extract

Because this review will be partial in its survey and somewhat critical in tone, it may be as well to begin by applauding the overall achievement of AACR. Its long-awaited publication in 1967 helped enormously to clear the cataloguing air. Here at last was a convincing demonstration that behind all the craft mysteries of cataloguing there lay a logic, a rationale; that it was not just a matter of following a few rule of thumb procedures. For dealing with the general run of modern printed texts in English-speaking libraries the new code promised well.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Summer 1979 , pp. 23 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1976

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References

(1) Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed./ edited by Gorman, Michael and Winkler, Paul W.. London: Library Association, 1978.Google Scholar