Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and Library Metadata

Vocabulary flashcards covering library cataloging principles, historical cataloguing codes, classification systems, AACR2 rules, and MARC 21 metadata standards from the lecture notes.

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)

An international library cataloging standard first published in 1967.

AACR2

The second edition of AACR, edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler, issued in 1978; all updates ceased in 2005.

Bibliographic Record

An entry in a library catalog (also known as an entry or metadata) providing a uniform description of an item's physical characteristics, intellectual characteristics, and position in library space.

Descriptive Cataloguing

A division of cataloguing consisting of the description of a bibliographic resource and the determination of access points.

Subject Cataloguing

A division of cataloguing consisting of classification according to a notation and the assignment of subject headings.

Panizzi’s Rules

A set of cataloguing rules created by Anthony Panizzi, Keeper of the Printed Books at the British Museum, published in 1841 as the first major modern statement of underlying cataloguing principles.

Cutter’s Principles

Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue created by Charles Cutter of the Boston Athenaeum, published in 1903, which established objectives for finding books by author, title, or subject, showing library holdings, and assisting in book selection.

Lubetzky’s Principles

Descriptive cataloguing principles created by Seymour Lubetzky (professor at UCLA school of library service 1960-69) in articles such as 'Rules for Descriptive Cataloguing' and 'Cataloguing Rule and Principles'.

Paris Principles

Theoretical foundation for library cataloguing rules agreed upon in October 1961 at the IFLA Conference on Cataloguing Principles in Paris by delegations from 65 countries.

International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)

An international standard produced by IFLA following meetings in Copenhagen in 1969 that divides item descriptions into 8 distinct areas.

Resource Description and Access (RDA)

The online successor to AACR2 based on the FRBR and FRAD conceptual models, providing rules for item descriptions and relationships between items.

FRAD

Functional Requirements for Authority Data; a conceptual model developed by IFLA that enumerates main user tasks as find, identify, select, and obtain in relation to an entity.

Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)

A hierarchical numerical classification system created by Melvil Dewey in 1876, organized into ten main classes, 10 divisions, and 10 sections each.

Library of Congress Classification (LCC)

An enumerative classification system organized into 21 one-letter coded classes, with subclasses formed by two-letter or three-letter combinations.

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

A thesaurus of subject headings maintained by the Library of Congress.

MARC 21

A digital communication format standard used for structuring bibliographic records.

OPACs

Online Public Access Catalogs, which are library card catalogues accessible via the web.

Copy Cataloging

The process of searching for and finding a matching existing bibliographic record, and then editing it; also called cooperative cataloguing.

General Material Designation (GMD)

An indicator in square brackets following the title per AACR2 rule 1.1C, such as [text] or [sound recording].

Parallel Title

A title in another language recorded under AACR2 rule 1.1D, separated from the title proper by space-equal-space.

Statement of Responsibility

AACR2 rule 1.1F title element listing authors, editors, or institutions as presented on the title page, separated by space-slash-space.

Sine Loco ([s.l.])

Abbreviation in square brackets meaning 'without place', used when the place of publication is unknown.

Sine Nomine ([s.n.])

Abbreviation used in square brackets when the publisher name is unknown.

MARC Leader (LDR)

A 24-character position field in MARC records composed of data elements that enable automated systems to process the record.

MARC Directory

A series of entries in a MARC record containing the tag, length, and starting location of each variable field.

MARC Control Fields

Fields beginning with 0 (such as fixed field 008 with 40 character positions) that codify information like transaction date and time.

MARC Tag 100

The three-digit MARC tag indicating personal name main entry.

MARC Tag 245

The three-digit MARC tag indicating title information.

MARC Tag 260

The three-digit MARC tag indicating publication information.

MARC Tag 300

The three-digit MARC tag indicating physical description.

MARC Tag 650

The three-digit MARC tag indicating topical subject headings.

MARCXML

An XML schema based on MARC 21 standard developed by LC to represent MARC data in XML format for reading by computer applications.

OCLC

The largest online bibliographic network in the world, renamed in 1977 from Ohio College Library Center to OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

WorldCat

A global network database containing MARC records since 1985, where each bibliographic record has corresponding holdings records.