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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes field of classification and cataloguing. The 5th edition of the catalogue code with additional
rules for Dictionary Catalogue Code appeared in 1964.

Notes The CCC contributes great significance to the title page along with its overflow
pages, which is basically based on the assumption that a cataloguer has ordinarily no
authorization to go beyond the information promptly which are made accessible to him.
According to CCC, the heading form should be identified by the information which is made
available on the title page and its overflow pages, independent of the reality that it may be the
outcome in an incongruousness such as the same author seeming in more than one place in the
catalogue. As this exclusive dependency is bound to in respect of the personal names, exclusion
is made for the headings of the corporate body which is due to the reason that the name to be
used as a heading which should be the one in the library favoured language, that sometimes
might be dissimilar from the one provided on the title page. Despite the exclusions, CCC is as
coherent as one can be in the conditions.
The Cataloguing practice of Dr. Ranganathan’s was promulgated in 1974. Part N of the similar
comprises additions and amendments to CCC, which will be contained in edition 6 of CCC.

Example: The Canon of Recall Value has been premised in Cataloguing practice. This is
probably led to main modifications in the providing of the headings of the corporate body. He
also brought out a dictionary catalogue code; the very first edition of which was printed in 1945
as well as the second one came out in 1952.

The fourth edition of the Classified Catalogue Code was promulgated in 1952 that provided
requisite dictionary catalogue alternative rules, thus, eradicating totally the requirement for a
separate dictionary catalogue code. This is also true about the 5th edition of CCC.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
6. The Classified Catalogue Code (CCC) first published in ………………….
7. The classified catalogue code is free from the restriction of language unlike the other
codes in spite of their ……………………nature.
8. The Cataloguing practice of Dr. Ranganathan’s was promulgated in…………………..
9. The Canon of …………………has been premised in Cataloguing practice.
10. The …………………edition of the catalogue code with additional rules for Dictionary
Catalogue Code appeared in 1964.

12.3 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)

Even though it was continuously criticized and revised to suit the practicing cataloguers, the
newer versions were not found satisfactory. Therefore, a more coherent and unified code therefore
was demanded.

12.3.1 AACR 1 (1967)

The international conference on cataloguing principles (ICCP) convened in Paris in October
1961, adopted and accepted a statement of principles in whole or part by delegations from

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