Other Resources

Library of Congress

• Cataloging Policy and Support Office
• Network Development and MARC Standards Office
• Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

• Reports of the liaison to the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access
  • 2005/2006
  • 2006/2007
• IFLA Home Page
• IFLA Core Activity: IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies (ICADS)
  [Previously called: "IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS)"]
• Cataloguing Section
• Annual Reports
• Functional Requirements for Authority Records
  • Announcement that publication is forthcoming
• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
  • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (1998)
    [HTML version] [Acrobat PDF version (1.2 MB; 142 pages)]
  • FRBR Review Group
    [Previously known as: Working Group on FRBR]
  • Working Group on Aggregates
  • Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue
  • World-wide review of revisions to FRBR section 3.2.2, definition of the entity expression
  • Mapping ISBD elements to FRBR entity attributes and relationships
  • FRBR in 21st Century Catalogues: An Invitational Workshop (May 2005)
• International Meetings of Experts for an International Cataloguing Code (IME-ICC)
• First Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, 2003
• Second Meeting, Buenos Aires, 2004
• Third Meeting, Cairo, 2005
• Glossary for IME ICC (updated Sept. 2005)
• Fourth Meeting, Seoul, 2006
• Fifth Meeting, Pretoria, 2007  
• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (2009)  NEW
• International Standard Bibliographic Description
• International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) [Consolidated Edition] [1.73 MB, 320 pages] (2007)
• World-Wide Review of Proposed Area 0 for ISBD (2008)
• Other documents
• Names of Persons (4th rev. ed., 1996)
• Anonymous Classics: A List of Uniform Headings for European Literatures (2nd ed. rev., 2004) (Rev. ed., 1991)
• List of Uniform Titles for Liturgical Works of the Latin Rites of the Catholic Church (2nd ed., 1981)
• Structures Of Corporate Name Headings: Final Report (2000)
• Guidelines for Authority Records and References (GARR) (2nd ed., 2001)
• Mandatory Data Elements for Internationally Shared Resource Authority Records (1998)
• World-Wide Review of “Guidelines for OPAC Displays” (2003)
• World-Wide Review of “Guidance on the Structure, Content, and Application of Metadata Records for Digital Resources and Collections”
• Reports on the IFLA Section on Cataloguing and Related UBCIM Activities from ALA Representatives
  • 2002 Conference in Glasgow (by Glenn Patton and Barbara Tillett)
  • 2003 Conference in Berlin (by William Garrison, Glenn Patton and Barbara Tillett)
  • 2004 Conference in Buenos Aires (by William Garrison)
  • 2005 Conference in Oslo (by William Garrison, John Hostage and Glenn Patton)
  • 2006 Conference in Seoul (by William Garrison and John Hostage)
  • 2007 Conference in Durban (by William Garrison and John Hostage)
  • 2008 Conference in Montreal (by William Garrison and John Hostage)  

  The Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloging Section will be meeting August 22, 2009 in Milan, Italy.

International Council on Archives (ICA)

• ICA Home Page
• ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, 2nd ed.
• ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, 2nd ed.

Other Reports

• REUSE Project: Aligning International Cataloging Standards
• REUSE+: The Part --> Whole Relationship in German and American Cataloging Data
• Harmonization of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and Russian Cataloguing Rules