"This book covers descriptive cataloguing, and is designed as a simple companion to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (revised 2002 edition). The author believes that most items can be catalogued using comparatively few of the rules, and that the more abstruse rules can be ignored until you need them. The book therefore concentrates on the basics. Nevertheless, difficulties are not ignored, and the author emphasizes that cataloguing requires judgement and discretion"--Back cover.

The authors provide an organized source of examples of Library of Congress cataloguing practice according to Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR 2) and seek to save the cataloger's time and assist them in maintaining consistency in their catalogs. The examples are arranged by AACR 2 rule numbers. The book includes numerous examples of descriptive cataloguing and of serial cataloguing, while it does not include examples of chapters 7-11 of the rules, which cover motion-pictures and video recordings, graphic materials, machine readable data files, three-dimensional artifacts and microforms, and of rules covering geographic names and references. Throughout the book, few examples are given for rules requiring little or no interpretation and many when individual judgement is required. ISBN 0-8108-1683-0 : $19.50 (For use only in the library).

Presents an authoritative reference guide for catalogers allowing the user to identify rules governing each MARC field, match resources to records, edit and create new records and provides cross-references between AACR2 and MARC21.