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Unit 14: Development and Trends in Library Cataloguing

2. In 1965 the LC established a global network of national and regional offices for interna- Notes
tional cooperation. Each office is responsible for selection, acquisition and dispatch of
materials published locally. These offices convert the catalogue entries according to LC
practice. Then these catalogue cards are sent to the shared cataloguing division of LC
where necessary editing work was done.
3. Creation of a Union catalogue on the basis of data supplied by individual libraries is a
good example of cooperative cataloguing.

Merits
1. Adequate catalogue entries are available
2. Delay in cataloguing is reduced
3. Uniformity is achieved
4. They are more legible and easy to consult
5. It saves time of the cataloguing staff so that they can be engaged in some other work
6. It is cheaper and results in saving.

Demerits
1. It may reduce the number of skilled cataloguers in individual libraries
2. This will make the cataloguers less familiar to subjects since ready made cards are prepared.
3. Books will have to be sent to the cataloguing agency every time.

14.8 International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
The international meeting of the Cataloguing experts was held at Copenhagen in 1969. The delegates
stressed the need for a standard method of description of books to improve international
cooperation. A document called “International Bibliographic Description” was issued in 1971 and
this format was accepted and adopted in many National libraries. The discrepancies in this document
were discussed in the IFLA conference in 1973. As a result of this discussion two documents namely
1. ISBD (M) and 2. ISBD (S) are published.

14.9 Common Communication Format (CCF)
The CCF was prepared in 1984 with the support of UNESCO. The purpose of CCF is to provide a
detailed and structured method for recording a number of mandatory and optional data elements
in a computer-readable bibliographic record for exchange between two or more computer based
systems.
The CCF is designed to provide standard format. The main purposes are (1) to permit exchange of
bibliographic records between groups of libraries (2) to permit a bibliographic agency to
manipulate with a single set of computer programs, the bibliographic records from libraries. (3) to
serve as a basis of a format for a bibliography agency’s own bibliographic databases.
Each CCF record consists of four major parts:
1. Record label
2. Directories
3. Data fields
4. Record separator.

14.10 International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify
a print or electronic periodical publication. Periodicals published in both print and electronic
form may have two ISSNs, a print ISSN (p-ISSN) and an electronic ISSN (e-ISSN or eISSN). The
ISSN system was first drafted as an ISO international standard in 1971 and published as ISO 3297 in
1975. The ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC 9 is responsible for the standard.

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