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Unit 12: Normative Principles of Cataloguing

begins with a Call Number or Class Number in the Leading Section. In the Alphabetical part, Notes
the entries are arranged according to the Alphabetical order. That is each entry begins with
a word in the Leading section. The classified part consists of the Main entry and the Cross
Reference Entry. The other entries namely the various Book Index Entries, Class Index
Entries, Cross Reference Index entries etc, from the alphabetical part of classified cata-
logue. Rules are given at three levels. The levels are terminology, conflict of authorship
and rendering of the name. The rules are based on normative principles.
The main entry is a basic record for a given document. It is a specific entry, which provides
maximum information about the document. Each document gets one main entry. A main
entry in CCC consists of the following sections;
Leading Section
Heading
Title section
Note section, if any
Accession number and
Tracing section
The leading section consists of call number of the document. The call number is
always written in Pencil.
The heading can be one of the following:
The name(s) of a person all authors;
The name of a corporate author;
The name(s) of a joint personal author and of a corporate author;
The name(s) of joint corporate authors;
A pseudonym or two or more pseudonyms;
The name(s) of a collaborator(s);
The title of document
The title section consists of;
The title;
Information regarding the edition;
Information regarding collaborator(s)
The following is a list of kinds of notes:
Series note;
Multiple series note;
Extract note;
Change of the title note;
Extraction note; and
Associated book note

Did u know? Accession number is a number to be taken from the book of the title page. The
tracing section is given on the back of the main entry.

(b) CCC: In the Classified Catalogue Code, if the single person is an author, then the name of
a personal author shall become the heading of a main entry. In rendering the name, the
elements in the name shall be given in the following order:
Entry element, Secondary element and Individualizing element.
(i) Study of Shared author: Collaboration between two or more persons or bodies perform-
ing the same kind of activity in the creation of the content of an item. The contribution of
each may not be separable from that of the others (AACR2).

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