Rule

Cataloguing Codes

  • British Museum Cataloguing Rules

    British Museum Cataloguing Rules
    "Panizzi's 91 Rules", approved 1839, published 1841
  • Jewett's Rules

    Jewett's Rules
    'Smithsonian report on the construction of catalogues of libraries and their publication by means of separate, stereotyped titles, with rules and examples' 2nd ed. 1853.
  • Cutter's Rules

    Cutter's Rules
    'Rules for a printed dictionary catalogue'
  • ALA Condensed Rules for an Author & Title Catalog

    Published in 'Library Journal', 1883.
  • LA Cataloguing Rules

    'Cataloguing Rules 1. of the British Museum 2. of the Bodleian Library 3. of the Library Association.' Library Association, 1893.
  • LA / ALA Catalog Rules, Author and Title Entries

    Joint production, published 1908 in London and Chicago
  • Prussian Instructions

    'The Prussion Instructions : rules for the alphabetical catalogs of the Prussian Libraries.' Authorized 1908 ; 2nd ed. translated into English and published in the USA in 1938.
  • Vatican Rules

    'Rules for the catalog of printed books'. Devised in the 1920s, first ed. published in Italian in 1931-6; 2nd ed. translated into English and published in the USA in 1949.
  • ALA Catalog Rules, Author and Title Entries

  • Library of Congress

  • ALA Cataloging Rules for Author and Title Entries

  • Lubetzky's Report on the ALA Rules

    'Cataloging rules and principles; a critique of the A.L.A. rules for entry and a proposed design for their revision.'
  • MARC Pilot

  • AACR

  • Paris Principles

    'Statement of principles adopted at the International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, October 1961' published in 1971.
  • Description of the BNB Records: A Manual of Practice published

    Michael Gorman and J.E. Linford. Description of the BNB Records: A Manual of Practice. London : Council of the British National Bibliography, 1971.
  • ISO Standard 2709 for MARC

  • ISBD(M)

    'ISBD(M) : International Standard Bibliographic Description for Monographic Publications.' Following International Meeting of Cataloguing Experts, Copenhagen, 1969, ISBD(M) was published in 1974.
  • UK MARC Manual published.

    British Library Bibliographic Services Division. UK MARC Manual. London: British Library, 1975.
  • AACR2

  • UK MARC Manual. 2nd ed. published

    British Library Bibliographic Services Division. UK MARC Manual. 2nd ed. London: British Library, 1980.
  • AACR2R

  • UK MARC Manual. 3rd ed. published

    British Library Bibliographic Services Division. UK MARC Manual. 3rd ed. London: British Library, 1990.
  • UK MARC Manual. 4th ed. published

    British Library Bibliographic Services Division. UK MARC Manual. 4th ed. London: British Library, 1996.
  • AACR2R

  • FRBR

  • FRBR

    'Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Final report.' IFLA, 1998.
  • MARC 21

    MARC 21
  • AACR2R

    AACR2R
  • RDA Final Draft issued by JSC

    RDA Final Draft issued by JSC
  • IFLA Statement of International Cataloguing Principles

    IFLA Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
  • RDA toolkit launches

    RDA toolkit launches
  • RDA Print launched

    RDA Print launched
    Originally announced as an online-only product, at the end of 2010 ALA Publishing bowed to community pressure and released a looseleaf version. Pricing options from RDA Toolkit news on 5 January 2011
  • Transforming our Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) announced

    Transforming our Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) announced
  • US National Tests on RDA reports

    US National Tests on RDA reports
  • Chris Oliver appointed to copy-edit RDA

    Chris Oliver appointed to copy-edit RDA
  • BIBFRAME Primer published

    BIBFRAME Primer published
    Eric Miller, Uche Ogbuji, Victoria Mueller and Kathy MacDougall. (2012). Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services. Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/pdf/marcld-report-11-21-2012.pdf(http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/pdf/marcld-report-11-21-2012.pdf)
  • RDA Print 2013 revision

    RDA Print 2013 revision
  • RDA Print 2014 revision

    RDA Print 2014 revision
  • RDA Print 2015 revision

    RDA Print 2015 revision
  • BIBFRAME 2.0 published

    BIBFRAME 2.0 published