Cataloging–History: A Brief History of AACR

Sections include:
+ British Museum Rules
+ Cutter’s Rules for a Dictionary Catalog
+ Anglo-American Code–Developments in the United States
+ Anglo-American Code–Developments in the United Kingdom
+ A.L.A. Cataloging Rules
+ Rules for Descriptive Cataloging in the Library of Congress
+ Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
+ ISBD and AACR Revisions

See Also: Prefaces of AACR2 (1978, 1988, 1998 revisions)
More historic documents.

Source: The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA

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