{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,2]],"date-time":"2025-08-02T17:08:22Z","timestamp":1754154502742,"version":"3.41.2"},"reference-count":32,"publisher":"Emerald","issue":"1\/2","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,1]],"date-time":"2006-01-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1136073600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/site-policies"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Purpose<\/jats:title><jats:p>The purpose of this article is to compare Anglo\u2010American cataloguing codes and practices for description over the past 150 years and assess the contribution that they made to International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The major international codes, and those of major British libraries, are examined point by point, using as a basis the main areas of description as outlined in AACR2. Cataloguing textbooks are also referred to when appropriate.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The article finds that general order of elements has been remarkably constant throughout the period, most variation being seen in the physical description area. Primacy of the title page as a source of information is long established. Publisher's name was often of minor importance, and in public libraries physical description was greatly reduced. It is clear from wording that codes often adopted rules from one another, and evidently some libraries made a great attempt to adopt the latest thinking. Solutions to some problems evolved gradually over a long period. Even some apparently minor aspects of punctuation have a long pedigree. ISBD clearly drew on a long\u2010established consensus as far as possible.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>In revising AACR2 it is important to be able to see how we have reached where we are now, and in particular to avoid repetition of past mistakes. In an increasingly international publishing environment it is vital to solve the problem of multiple places of publication.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This subject has never been tackled in this way before, and the findings are timely for the ongoing revision of AACR2.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/00012530610648662","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,7,3]],"date-time":"2006-07-03T20:06:53Z","timestamp":1151957213000},"page":"34-48","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["The development of description in cataloguing prior to ISBD"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"58","author":[{"given":"J.H.","family":"Bowman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b1","unstructured":"American Library Association, the British Library, the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, the Library Association and the Library of Congress (1978), in Gorman, M. and Winkler, P.W. (Eds), Anglo\u2010American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed., Library Association, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b2","unstructured":"American Library Association, the Library of Congress, the Library Association and the Canadian Library Association (1967), Anglo\u2010American Cataloguing Rules, Library Association, London (British text)."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b3","unstructured":"Bell, E.J. (1908\/1909), \u201cPunctuation of catalogues\u201d, Library World, Vol. 11, pp. 38\u20109."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Blake, V.L.P. (2002), \u201cForging the Anglo\u2010American cataloging alliance: descriptive cataloging, 1830\u20101908\u201d, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 35 Nos 1\/2, pp. 3\u201022.","DOI":"10.1300\/J104v35n01_02"},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bowman, J.H. (2001), \u201cSic catalog sydrome: title page transcription as a barrier to retrieval\u201d, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp. 39\u201054.","DOI":"10.1300\/J104v32n01_04"},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b6","unstructured":"British Museum (1841), Alphabetical Catalogue of Printed Books: Rules to Be Observed in Preparing and Entering Titles, British Museum, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b7","unstructured":"British Museum (1936), Rules for Compiling the Catalogues of Printed Books, Maps and Music in the British Museum, rev. ed., British Museum, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b8","unstructured":"Chaplin, A.H. (1987), GK: 150 years of the General Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum, Scolar, Aldershot."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b9","unstructured":"Committees of the Library Association and of the American Library Association (1908), Cataloguing Rules: Author and Title Entries, Library Association, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b10","unstructured":"Cutter, C.A. (1904), Rules for a Dictionary Catalog, 4th ed., GPO, Washington, DC."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b11","unstructured":"Edmond, J.P. (1903), \u201cOn the use of capital letters in cataloguing\u201d, The Library, Vol. 5, pp. 77\u201080."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b12","unstructured":"Gorman, M. (1971), \u201cThe standard bibliographic description\u201d, Catalogue & Index, No. 22, pp. 3\u20105."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Gorman, M. (1989), \u201cYesterday's heresy \u2013 today's orthodoxy: an essay on the changing face of descriptive cataloguing\u201d, College and Research Libraries, Vol. 50 No. 4, pp. 626\u201034.","DOI":"10.5860\/crl_50_06_626"},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b14","unstructured":"Gorman, M. and Winkler, P.W. (Eds) (1988), Anglo\u2010American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed., 1988 revision, Library Association, London (prepared under the direction of the Joint Steering Committee on Cataloguing, the Library Association and the Library of Congress)."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b15","unstructured":"Hagler, R. (1977), \u201cChanges in cataloging rules: rules for description\u201d, Library Trends, Vol. 25 No. 3, pp. 603\u201023."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b16","unstructured":"Hanson, J.C.M. (1939), A Comparative Study of Cataloging Rules Based on the Anglo\u2010American Code of 1908, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b17","unstructured":"Henderson, K.L. (1976), \u201c\u2018Treated with a degree of uniformity and common sense\u2019: descriptive cataloging in the United States 1876\u20101975\u201d, Library Trends, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 227\u201071."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b18","unstructured":"Hitchler, T. (1903), Comparative Cataloguing Rules: 20 Points in 10 Codes Briefly Compared, George G. Peck, New York, NY."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b19","unstructured":"International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (2002), \u201cISBD(M): international standard bibliographic description for monographic publications\u201d, available at: www.ifla.org\/VII\/s13\/pubs\/isbd_m0602.pdf (accessed 21 January 2005)."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b20","unstructured":"International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (2004), \u201cISBD(G): general international standard bibliographic description\u201d, available at: www.ifla.org\/VII\/s13\/pubs\/isbdg2004.pdf (accessed 21 January 2005)."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b21","unstructured":"Jast, L.S. (1899\/1900), \u201cClassified and annotated cataloguing: suggestions and rules\u201d, Library World, Vol. 2, pp. 118\u201021, 229\u201031, 285\u20108."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b22","unstructured":"Jast, L.S. (1900\/1901), \u201cClassified and annotated cataloguing: the individual biographical entry\u201d, Library World, Vol. 3, pp. 29\u201031."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b23","unstructured":"Jast, L.S. (1902), \u201cThe Library Association cataloguing rules\u201d, Library Association Record, Vol. 4, pp. 579\u201082."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b24","unstructured":"Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR (1998), Anglo\u2010American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed., 1998 revision, Library Association, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b25","unstructured":"Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR (2002), Anglo\u2010American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed., 2002 revision, CILIP, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b26","unstructured":"Library Association (1884), Library Association Year Book, Library Association, London, pp. 65\u20108."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b27","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"London, G. (1980), \u201cThe place and role of bibliographic description in general and individual catalogues: a historical analysis\u201d, Libri, Vol. 30 No. 4, pp. 253\u201083.","DOI":"10.1515\/libr.1980.30.4.253"},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b28","unstructured":"Norris, D.M. (1939), A History of Cataloguing and Cataloguing Methods 1100\u20101850: With an Introductory Survey of Ancient Times, Grafton, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b29","unstructured":"Quinn, J.H. (1899), Manual of Library Cataloging, Library Supply Co., London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b30","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Strout, R.F. (1956), \u201cThe development of the catalog and cataloging rules\u201d, Library Quarterly, Vol. 26 No. 4, pp. 254\u201075.","DOI":"10.1086\/618341"},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b31","unstructured":"Taylor, M.S. (1948), Fundamentals of Practical Cataloguing, Allen & Unwin, London."},{"key":"key2022012620004712400_b32","unstructured":"Wheatley, H.B. (1889), How to Catalogue a Library, Elliot Stock, London."}],"container-title":["Aslib Proceedings"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1108\/00012530610648662","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/00012530610648662\/full\/xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/00012530610648662\/full\/html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,24]],"date-time":"2025-07-24T11:36:41Z","timestamp":1753357001000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emerald.com\/ajim\/article\/58\/1-2\/34-48\/18546"}},"subtitle":[],"editor":[{"given":"Andy","family":"Dawson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"editor","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,1]]},"references-count":32,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1\/2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1108\/00012530610648662"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/00012530610648662","relation":{},"ISSN":["0001-253X"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0001-253X"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,1]]}}}