Implementing <i>AACR</i> and <i>AACR2</i> : A Personal Perspective and Lessons Learned
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As we move toward implementing RDA: Resource Description and Access , I have been pondering how we might manage the transition to new cataloging rules effectively. I was a practicing cataloger when Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules , 2nd ed., was implemented and remember it as a traumatic process. The published literature that I found focused on the impact of the then-new rules on specific formats and genres, but no one seems to have addressed the process of implementation and what type of training worked well (or did not). After a bit of sleuthing, I found a pertinent presentation by Arlene G. Taylor, which she graciously agreed to repurpose as this guest editorial. —Peggy Johnson
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' (): bulletin 80 (Apr. 1967): 1.n Rules for Descriptive Cataloging in the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Descriptive Cataloging Division ) 1949nSuperimposition is the cataloging principle that only headings created
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new rules take effect need to conform to the changes mandated in the new rules. This makes changing headings processed under the old rules unnecessary.n '
International Standard Bibliographic Description for Single Volume and Multi-Volume Monographic Publications, Recommended by the Working Group on the International Standard Bibliographic Description Set up at the International Meeting of Cataloguing Experts, Copenhagen, 1969.
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AACR 2 Headings: A Five-Year Projection of Their Impact on Catalogs
' (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1982. )nArlene G Taylor, Barbara Paff, '“Looking Back: Implementation of AACR 2, ”' Library Quarterly 56 no. 3 (): (July 1986): 272–85.n (Chicago: ALA; Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; London: CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2011).nHenderson, personal communication to the author.nIbid.n
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