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Items Made Up of Several Types of Materials (Rule 1.10)

Items that are made up of two or more components are called kits.
If one item is pre dominant, cat alog the other part as a sup plementary
item, as de scribed in Rule 1.9. If there is no pre dominant com ponent,
follow Rule 1.9, too, and de scribe both items as equal.
Ex am ple: 1 film strip (52 fr.) : col. ; 35 mm.
1 sound cas sette (45 min.) : an alog, ste reo.

Facsimiles, Photocopies, and Other Reproductions (Rule 1.11)

De scribe fac sim i les, pho to cop ies, and other re pro duc tions as stated in
the chief source of information. Give data on orig inal in the note area.

Ex am ple: The hu man body / Ed i to rial Board of Time-Life
Books. – New York. Time-Life Books, 1995. Re-
print of ar ticle from World Book En cy clo pe dia.

This con cludes the AACR2R gen eral rules of descriptive cat alog-
ing. The rest of this sec tion ex amines and ex plains each chapter of
AACR2R. For each chap ter, only the most com monly used fea tures
are dis cussed. These rules do not in clude all pos sible sit uations en -
countered when do ing de scriptive cataloging. For items that con tain
specific fea tures not cov ered in this text, AACR2R should be con -
sulted in ref erence.
Chapters 2 through 12 de tail the ap plication of the rules that should
be ap plied for dif ferent types of ma terials. Types of ma terials in -
cluded are books, pamphlets, and printed ma terials; car tographic ma -
te ri als; manu scripts; mu sic; sound re cord ings; mo tion pic tures and
videorecordings; graphic ma terials; com puter files; three-
di men sional ar ti facts and realia; mi croforms; and serials. Each chap -
ter ex plains the rules for the par ticular cho sen me dium. Let us dis cuss
one me dium at a time.
Chapter 2 of AACR2R spec ifies what rules are ap plied for cat alog-
ing books, pam phlets, and printed sheets. For these ma terials, the
chief source of in formation is the ti tle page. If there is no ti tle page,
the source from within the pub lication is used as a sub stitute. (Rule
2.0 B1)