AACR2

Question 1

AACR2

Answer 1

Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (2nd edition)

Question 2

AACR2 Definition

Answer 2

A standardised library code used for the development of bibliographic records.

Question 3

AACR2 Origin

Answer 3

• Based on IFLA’s ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description).
• First published in 1967, edited by C. Sumner Spalding.
• Second edition in 1978, edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler.
• Revisions in 1988 and 1998.
• Updates ceased in 2005.

Question 4

AACR2 Objectives

Answer 4

• Provides a set of rules for each area and guides users on how to record the data in a uniform style.
• Describes areas like the title, publisher, edition, etc. of books, cartographic materials, music, microforms, and continuing resources.

Question 5

AACR2 Rules

Answer 5

• Do not transcribe in all capital
  letters as seen on book covers.
• Always capitalise the first letter, and
  also things like Apple, Zoom,
  religious things like God, Pope
  Francis, title of a person (words that
  should be capitalised, different for
  every language).
• If there is no statement of
  responsibility which is rare, put in
  brackets (no author).

Question 6

AACR2 Cons

Answer 6

• Not suitable for new technology.
• Not made for new formats or publishing standards.
• Lots of abbreviations are used in
  AACR2 because it is influenced by
  the limited space on old computers.
  RDA does not have this issue.
  (AACR2 would have ed for edition).
• Mixing content and carrier data.
• Anglo-American centric viewpoint.
• Created long before FRBR and other FR models.
• Not user-centred enough, designed with the cataloguer in mind.

Question 7

Title

Answer 7

E.g.

The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn.

The natural history of moles / Martyn L. Gorman and R. David Stone.

Question 8

Parallel Title

Answer 8

Used if there are editions of a book in multiple languages.

Question 9

Other Title Information

Answer 9

Some art/graphic design books don’t have a title page, but is written on the spine. Would have to say that it comes from the spine as this is unusual.

Question 10

Publication, Distribution

Answer 10

E.g.

3rd ed

London : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

London : Christopher Helm, 1990.