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i. Make a note if a cumulative index is present.
j. Make a note when there is something special included with the
contents, such as exercises included for each chapter.
k. Make a note of local holdings, the item’s status, or restrictions
on its use.

Ex am ple: American li braries – Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1970) –
11 no. a year
Indexed : Library Literature, Book Review Index
Library has : Jan. 1980-
Back issues in microfilm

Chapter 13 ex plains the rules for “Anal ysis.” These de tail how to
describe a part or parts of an item, or how to in dicate that the item in
hand is part of a comprehensive work. As ex plained in the note area
(Rule 1.7), parts of the work are usu ally listed as a con tent note in the
note area. At other times though, a more com prehensive de scription
may be nec essary, and an “In” an alytic en try is rec ommended. The
word “In” should be italicized, un derlined, or oth erwise em phasized.
(Rule 13.5)
Ex am ple: The Spring flow ers
In The best loved po ems / New York: McGraw-
Hill, 1999.
Whether work ing on cards or on the computer, the same AACR2R
rules are to be followed. This means that even though the card and the
online catalog look very dif ferent, cat aloging is done the same way by
following the same rules. It is eas ier to cat alog on line be cause there is a
standard form, called the MARC for mat, that shows on the screen. The
cataloger fills in the in formation for each sep arate line, un der a dif fer-
ent code num ber called a “field,” cor responding to the chief source of
information for the item, and then fol lows the prescribed way to en ter
the in formation. More on cat aloging on the com puter is ex plained in
Chap ter 8.
Both in the pro cess of rou tine cataloging and when un usual prob -
lems and situations arise, it is nec essary for the li brary tech nician to
be fa miliar with all as pects of the AACR2R so that all the needed
rules can be lo cated ef ficiently.