History of Cataloging Codes

• Early Library Organization Methods

• British Museum Rules (1841)

• Cutter’s Rules for a Dictionary Catalog (1876)

• Prussian Instructions (1898)

• Anglo-American Code (1908)

• ALA Code (1949)

• AACR (1967) Lubetsky’s revision

• AACR II (1978 revised 1988 -- new integrated version on way)

Vis. Rowley, Chap 8

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