Developments in indexing

Developments in indexing

Indexação (biblioteconomia)

The author-title approach has been revolutionised since the Paris Conference of 1961. We now have (almost) international agreement on the description of documents (with the International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions or ISBDs) and on choice and form of headings (with the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules of 1967 (AACR) and other national codes based on AACR). There are; as 1 see it, two major failures in author/title cataloguing: one is the fact that I had to use the plural form for ISBDs — why cannot we have one description for all kinds of materials, whether books, periodicals or audio-visual materials? The second is our failure to drop the main entry principle, which surely has no meaning in these days of MARC and other computer systems. But the new edition of AACR will move the section on choice qf main entry from Part 1 to Part 2, after description.

Bakewell, K. G. B.

FEBAB

1977

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Evento

Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)