card cataloging according to aacr2

1. AACR2
CATALOGUING RULES (BOOKS,
PAMPHLETS, AND PRINTED SHEETS)
THE MOST
IMPORTANT RULES
IS TO
TRANSCRIBE
WHAT YOU SEE
IN THE SOURCE
OF INFORMATION

2. GENERAL INFORMATION
SOURCE OF INFORMATION
The title page is the chief source of
information.
If a book has no title page, use the cover, the
half-title page or the caption…

3. TITLE
 Transcribe the title
proper just as it appears
in the title page (chief
source of information)
 Transcribe exactly all the
words of the title proper
= do not omit any words
 Items lacking a title = the
cataloguer can make up a
title for an item but
MUST put it in [brackets]
TITLE

4. STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
 Transcribe just as it
appears in the chief
source of information
 When more than 3
authors have the same
function, give only the
first name followed by
“…[et al.]”
 What’s an author? Garry L. Preston…[et al.]

5. STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Compiled by Patricia
Kahola

6. PUBLICATION AREA (1)
The sources of information for
publication area are:
• The title page
• Other preliminaries (verso
of title page, cover), but the
information must be
enclosed in [brackets]
1. Place of publication = write
the name as you find it. If
no name, write [S.l.]
2. Name of publisher = if no
name, write [s.n.]
Publication area

7. PUBLICATION AREA (2)
• Date of publication = the publication area must
include a date.
If the cataloguer can’t find a date in the item, he/she
has to guess…and has to display the date as =
[1971 or 1972], [1969?], [ca. 1960], [197-], etc.

8. Title: subtitle
Authors with the
same function
By G.L. Preston…[et al.] ; illustrated by S.E.
Belew
Author with another
function
Name of
Publisher
Place
Date

9. A TRAINING MANUAL

10. FSM BIBLIOGRAPHY

11. REPORT OF MEETING

12. FAD Manual

13. FAO REPORT