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Descriptive cataloging -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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• Descriptive cataloging
• Cataloging -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

• Descriptive cataloging -- Rules -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials) (2008), by Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Bibliographic Standards Committee, contrib. by Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office (PDF with commentary at rbms.info)
• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics) (2013), by Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Bibliographic Standards Committee, contrib. by Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division and Elisabeth Betz Parker (PDF with commentary at rbns.info)

• Encoded Archival Description Tag Library (current version, which at time of cataloging was EAD3 1.1.0, edition 2018), by Society of American Archivists Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description (HTML and PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• Encoded Archival Description Tag Library (version 2002, revised edition (but later superseded); Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2003), by Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Description Working Group and Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (PDF at archivists.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) (c2007), by Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Bibliographic Standards Committee, contrib. by Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division (PDF with commentary at rbns.info)
• Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections (1997 version, updated to 2002), by Elisabeth Betz Parker, contrib. by Library of Congress (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• Cataloging Rules for the Description of Looseleaf Publications, With Special Emphasis on Legal Materials (based on the second edition, 1989), by Adele Hallam (HTML at itsmarc.com)
• Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual (based on the second edition with update 1, 2001), by Library of Congress
  • frame-dependent HTML at itsmarc.com
  • HTML at itsmarc.com

• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (second edition; 1991), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (Chicago: American Library Association, c2006), ed. by Murtha Baca, Patricia Harpring, Elisa Lanzi, Linda McRae, and Ann Baird Whiteside (PDF files at vrafoundatino.org)