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Library Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes Continuance of conformity with the ISBD (M) as a basis for the bibliographic description of
monographs, and commitment to the principles of standardization in the bibliographic
description of all types of materials.

(ii) Structure of the AACR 2
It consists of two parts. Part I covers rules for a standard description of all kinds of library material.
Part II deals with the determination and establishment of headings, or access points in the catalogue,
under which the descriptive information is to be presented to catalogue users and with the making
of references to those headings.
(iii) Levels of description

The AACR 2 code has prescribed three levels of description. First level provides the minimum
information which is necessary to identify a given document. Second level description provides
all the data which may be considered necessary for description of documents forming part of the
main collection of medium to large libraries in the context of libraries in developed countries. The
third level provides information covering every descriptive element described in the code.
First level of description: Title proper/first statement of responsibility, if different from
main entry. Heading in form or number or if there is no main entry heading - Edition
statement - Material (or type of publication) specific details - first publishers, etc., date of
publication etc. - Extent of item - Notes standard number.
Second level of description: Title proper (general material designation = Parallel title:
other title information/first statement of responsibility each subsequent statement of
responsibility-Edition statement/first statement of responsibility relating to the edition-
material (or type of publication) specific details. First place of publication, etc. First pub-
lishers. Etc., date of publication, etc. - extent of item; other physical details, dimensions. -
(Title proper of series/statement of responsibility relating to series, ISSN of sub-series,
numbering within the series. Title of sub series, ISSN of sub series; numbering within the
series). Notes - standard number.
Third level of description: For the third level of description, we have to study all elements
set out in the rules.

(iv) Study of Single Authorship
AACR2 defines a personal author as “A personal author is the person chiefly responsible for the
creation of the intellectual or artistic content of a work.
AACR2 further suggest that “Enter a work, a collection of works, or selections from a work or
works by one personal author (or any print, reissue, etc. of such a work) under the heading for that
person whether named in the work or not. Choose, as the basis of the heading for a person, the
name by which he or she is commonly known. This may be the person’s real name, Pseudonym,
title of nobility, nickname, initials or other appellation.
Example:
1. The Old Man and the Sea/by Ernest Hemingway
Main entry under the heading for Hemingway
2. The secret garden/Hodgson Burnett
Main entry under the headings fro Burnett
3. The poetic and dramatic works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Main entry under the heading for Tennyson

12.2 CCC Normative Principles of Cataloguing

(a) Classified Catalogue Code (CCC). The classified catalogue code consists of two parts,
(i) classified part and Alphabetical part. The classified catalogue consists of two types of entries
namely, Number Entries and Word Entries. In classified part, the entries are
arranged according to the Call Number or Class Number of the documents. That is, each entry

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