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ANGLO-AMERICAN CATALOGUING RULES,
SECOND EDITION, 1998 REVISION

An glo-Amer i can Cat a loguing Rules, Second Edi tion, 1998 Re vi-
sion, or AACR2R for short, is di vided into two parts.
Part I is ti tled De scrip tion. In the first thirteen chap ters, detailed
rules and for mats are carefully ex plained for phys ically de scribing
books, pam phlets, car to graphic ma te ri als, manu scripts, mu sic, sound
re cord ings, mo tion pic tures and videorecordings, graphic ma te ri als,
com puter files, three-di men sional ar ti facts and realia, mi cro forms,
se ri als, and anal y sis.
Part II is ti tled Head ings, Uni form Ti tles, and Ref er ences. In Chap -
ters 21 through 26, the fol lowing rules are found: choice of ac cess
point, head ings for per sons, geo graphic names, head ings for cor po-
rate bod ies, uni form ti tles, and ref erences. A close study of each
chapter will pro vide a com plete ex planation of each rule.
Chapters 14 through 20 are re served to pro vide room for fu ture ex -
pansion of the rules.
The ap pendixes sec tion of the book cov ers (A) Cap i tal iza tion,
(B) Ab bre vi a tion, (C) Numerals, (D) Glos sary. It is essential that ways
to cap i tal ize, to ab breviate, and to write out num bers, as de tailed in Ap -
pendixes A, B, and C, are fol lowed. Ap pendix D, the glos sary, will as -
sist be ginners to more readily un derstand the text.
The index sec tion in the back co mes in handy when a spe cific
question or prob lem sur faces. This sec tion links the term be ing
looked up to the rule num ber so that the appropriate rule can be lo -
cated and ap plied.
In the fol lowing pages, rules are ex amined ac cording to their orig i-
nal se quence in the AACR2R. Rule num bers are iden tified for ref er-
ence pur poses.

PART I. DESCRIPTION

In Chap ter 1 of AACR2R, “General Rules for De scription,” the
most ba sic rules are listed. Some of the more com monly used ones
are out lined here.