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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes headings, geographical names and corporate bodies, corrections, rewording and addition of
new examples. The rules are presented in two parts:
Part 1 Description: Chapter 1: General rules of description, Chapter 2: Books, pamphlets, and
monographs, Chapter 3: Cartographic materials, Chapter 4: Manuscripts (including manuscript
collections), Chapter 5: Music, Chapter 6: Sound recordings, Chapter 7: Motion picture and
video recordings, Chapter 8: Cartographic materials, Chapter 9: Computer files, Chapter 10:
Three-dimensional artifacts and realia, Chapter 11: Microforms, Chapter 12: Serials, and
Chapter 13: Analysis.

Part 2 Heading, uniform titles and references: Chapters 21: Choice of access points, Chapter 22:
Headings for persons, Chapter 23: Geographic names, Chapter 24: Headings for corporate bodies,
Chapter 25: Uniform titles, and Chapter 26: References.
Part 3: It consists of appendixes, A: Capitalization, B: Abbreviations, C: Numerals, and
D: Glossary, and an Index.
Cataloguing rules cannot be static; they must be allowed to respond to the changing need.
Therefore, further revisions become necessary. So far the present, AACR 2 1988 revision is the
latest in the Anglo-American family of codes.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
11. The International Conference on Cataloguing Principles (ICCP) convened in Paris in
October 1991.
12. The new code known as (AACR I) appeared in 1967 and was received by the profession
with a mixed reaction.
13. The Library of Congress began the implementation of AACR 2 (1978) code in January
1951.
14. Cataloguing rules cannot be static; they must be allowed to respond to the changing need.

15. 2 resolved the problems of authorship more satisfactorily.

Case Study Building Capacities - Resource Sharing in India

esource sharing becomes more important and inevitable for developing countries
like India, where the information centres/libraries are short of funds and resources.
RFurther libraries find the space problem for storing purposes and hence they think
about library networks and resource sharing. Resource sharing from its elementary concept
of inter-library lending, now includes cooperative acquisition, collection development,
shared cataloguing, centralised processing, exchange of content page of journals, sharing
of bibliographical data, centralised periodicals collection, exchange of electronic documents
and articles, obtaining photocopies of articles, etc. In India, in the past two decades,
information technology has made significant progress. The current state of information
handling is indeed sufficient to support and encourage the sharing resources among
libraries. Especially, the present decade has witnessed renewed interest in library
cooperation for mutual benefits, at the national and international levels.
The Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) was founded in 1958 by the late Professor V.K.R.V.
Rao. The Institute is an autonomous, multi-disciplinary centre for advanced research and
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