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Jovita Kaur, Lovely Professional University Unit 12: Normative Principles of Cataloguing

Unit 12: Normative Principles of Cataloguing Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
12.1 AACR Normative Principles of Cataloguing
12.2 CCC Normative Principles of Cataloguing
12.3 Summary
12.4 Keywords
12.5 Review Questions
12.6 Further Readings

Objectives
After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Explain the AACR normative principles of cataloguing
Describe the CCC normative principles of cataloguing.

Introduction
Normative principles are best judged for evaluating the best catalogue code. These principles
guide every problem in cataloguing like drafting of a catalogue code, interpreting the rules to
meet new situation, guiding for a cataloguing work. CCC has incorporated the fundamental laws
and canons of cataloguing in its first parts.
This unit covers two normative principles of cataloguing: (i) AACR normative principles of
cataloguing and (ii) CCC normative principles of cataloguing.
12.1 AACR Normative Principles of Cataloguing

In order to respond the increasing mechanization, the growth of centralized and cooperative
bibliographic services and networks, introduction of a number of new media, the second edition
of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) emerged in 1979. It was complied by the American
Library Association. The British Library, the Canadian Committee on cataloguing, the Library
Association and the Library of Congress.

(i) Objectives of the AACR 2
Following are the main objectives of the AACR 2:
To reconcile in a single text the North American and British text of 1967.
To incorporate in the single text all amendments and changes already agreed and imple-
mented under the previous mechanisms.
To provide for international interest in AACR by facilitating its use in countries other than
the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Guidelines
Apart from the above objective, the following guidelines were also formulated.
Particular attention to developments in the machine processing of bibliographic records.
Maintenance of general conformity with the Paris principles of 1961, as manifested in the
first edition.
Determination of the treatment of non-book materials primarily from a consideration of the
published cataloguing rules of the Canadian Library Association, the Library Association,
and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.

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