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

• John Crerar Library cataloguing rules supplementary to the "cataloguing rules, author and title entries, compiled by committees of the American Library Association and the (British) Library Association. American edition, Boston, 1908," and to the supplementary cataloguing rules, issued on cards, of the Library of Congress. ([Chicago, 1909), by John Crerar Library (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Notes used on catalog cards; a list of examples. (American Library Association, 1963), by Olive Swain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of descriptive cataloging. A report to the librarian of Congress by the director of the Processing Department ... (U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1946), by Library of Congress. Processing Department and Herman Henry Henkle (page images at HathiTrust)
• AACR2 implementation studies. (Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Studies, 1980), by Association of Research Libraries. Office of Management Studies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A comparison of Panizzi's 91 rules and the AACR of 1967 (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1972), by Donald J. Lehnus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Graphic materials : rules for describing original items and historical collections (Library of Congress, 1982), by Elisabeth Betz Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cataloging concepts : descriptive cataloging : instructor's manual (Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1993), by Margaret Welk Cundiff, Matthew E. Gildea, and Library of Congress. Cataloging Distribution Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Archives, personal papers, and manuscripts : a cataloging manual for archival repositories, historical societies, and manuscript libraries ([Manuscript Division, Library of Congress], 1983), by Steven L. Hensen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archives, personal papers, and manuscripts : a cataloging manual for archival repositories, historical societies, and manuscript libraries (Society of American Archivists, 1989), by Steven L. Hensen and Society of American Archivists (page images at HathiTrust)
• EAD : encoded archival description tag library : version 1.0 (Society of American Archivists, 1998), by Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office and Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Description Working Group (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cataloging concepts : descriptive cataloging : instructor's manual (Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1993), by Margaret Welk Cundiff, Matthew E. Gildea, and Library of Congress. Cataloging Distribution Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
• Cataloging nonbook materials : problems in theory and practice (Libraries Unlimited, 1983), by Carolyn O. Frost and Arlene G. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archival moving image materials : a cataloging manual (Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, 1984), by Wendy White-Hensen and Broadcasting Library of Congress. Motion Picture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cataloging rules for the description of looseleaf publications : with special emphasis on legal materials (Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy, Library of Congress :, 1986), by Adele Hallam and Library of Congress. Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for a dictionary catalogue (G.P.O., 1891), by Charles A. Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A.L.A. cataloging rules for author and title entries. (American Library Assn., 1949), by American Library Association. Division of Cataloging and Classification, Clara Beetle, and American Library Association. Catalog Code Revision Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue rules supplementary to "Catalogue rules, author and title entries compiled by committees of the American library association and the (British) Library association. American ed. Boston, 1908." ([Chicago, 1909), by John Crerar Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cataloging rules of the American Library Association and the Library of Congress. Additions and changes, 1949-1958. (Library of Congress, 1959), by Library of Congress. Descriptive Cataloging Division and American Library Association. Division of Cataloging and Classification (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reglas para la catalogación descriptiva en The Library of Congress : (adoptadas por la American Library Association) (Washington, 1953), by Library of Congress. Descriptive Cataloging Division and Fermín Peraza Sarausa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regras de catalogação descritiva na Library of Congress : [adotadas pela American Library Association] (Washington, 1956), by Library of Congress. Descriptive Cataloging Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special rules on cataloging, to supplement A.L.A. rules--advance edition. 1-21. Issued for the use of the Catalog division of the Library of Congress. (Govt. print. off., 1906), by Library of Congress. Catalog Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of Congress rule interpretations. (Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1989), by Robert M. Hiatt, Library of Congress. Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy, and Library of Congress. Cataloging Distribution Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report on the Rules for descriptive cataloging in the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1948), by American Library Association. Committee on Descriptive Cataloging and Susan M. Haskins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Implementing descriptive standards at the United Church Central Archives : : a case study in automated techniques for archives (Society of American Archivists, 1997), by Jean E. Dryden, United Church of Canada, and Society of American Archivists (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moving image materials: a Cataloging manual (Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2000), by Wendy White-Hensen, Library of Congress. Cataloging Distribution Service, Broadcasting Library of Congress. Motion Picture, and Library of Congress. AMIM Revision Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cataloguing rules supplementary to the "Cataloguing rules, author and title entries, compiled by committees of the American library association and the (British) Library association. American ed., Boston, 1908," and to the Supplementary cataloguing rules, issued on cards, of the Library of Congress. (Printed by order of the Board of directors, 1916), by John Crerar Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public libraries in the United States of America : their history, condition, and management : Special report (Government printing office, 1876), by United States Bureau of Education and Charles A. Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for descriptive cataloging in the Library of Congress, supplement 1949-51. (Library of Congress, Descriptive Cataloging Division, 1952), by Library of Congress. Descriptive Cataloging Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Junior cataloguing based on A.L.A. rules] (1910), by Jennie Dorca Fellows and New York State Library. School (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue: U. S. Bureau of Education Special Report on Public Libraries—Part II, Third Edition, by Charles A. Cutter (Gutenberg ebook)

• Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue (third edition; Washington: GPO, 1891), by Charles A. Cutter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue (issued as Part II of Public Libraries of the United States of America; 1876), by Charles A. Cutter
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Public Libraries of the United States: Their History, Condition, and Management (two parts: Part I is a report edited by Warren and Clark; Part II is Cutter's rules for a Dictionary Catalogue; 1876), by United States Bureau of Education, ed. by Samuel R. Warren and S. N. Clark, contrib. by Charles A. Cutter
  • Part I: page images at Wisconsin
  • Part II: page images at MOA
• Format integration and its effect on the USMARC bibliographic format (Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1995), by Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public libraries in the United States of America: their history, condition & management (Rowman and Littlefield, 1971), by United States Office of Education and Charles A. Cutter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Central cataloging service. (Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration, Division of Community Service Programs, 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries and Their Publication by Means of Separate, Stereotyped Titles: With Rules and Examples, by Charles C. Jewett (Gutenberg ebook)

• USMARC code list for relators, sources, description conventions (Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1990), by Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• USMARC code list for relators, sources, description conventions (Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1997), by Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plan for an investigation into and report on the cost of cataloguing. (A. Patton, 1925), by American Library Association. Catalog Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• Format integration and its effect on the USMARC bibliographic format (Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1995), by Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of Congress : costs and savings of converting to on-line cataloging : report to the Assistant Librarian for Processing Services, Library of Congress (The Office, 1989), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

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