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)

• IFLA Home Page
• IFLA Core Activity: IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS)
• Cataloguing Section
• Functional Requirements for Authority Records
  • Draft for world-wide review
• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
  • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (1998)
    [HTML version] [Acrobat PDF version (559K)]
  • Working Group on FRBR
  • 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
• Fourth Meeting, Seoul, 2006
• Fifth Meeting, Pretoria, 2007   NEW
• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles   [“Final” draft] | [Revisions through November 2007]
• Glossary for IME ICC (updated Sept. 2005)
• International Standard Bibliographic Description
• ISBD(G): General International Standard Bibliographic Description (Rev. ed., 2004)
• ISBD(A): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Older Monographic Publications (Antiquarian) (2nd ed., 1991)
• ISBD(CM): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Cartographic Materials (Rev. ed., 1987)
• ISBD(CR): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Serials and Other Continuing Resources (2002)
• ISBD(ER): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources (1997)
• ISBD(ER) Revisions: Proposals initiated by the IFLA Section on Cataloguing’s ISDB Review Group
• ISBD(M): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Monographic Publications — 2002 Revision
• ISBD(NBM): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Non-Book Materials (Rev. ed., 1987)
• ISBD(NBM): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Printed Music (Rev. ed., 1991)
• Guidelines for the Application of the ISBDs to the Description of Component Parts (1998)
• Treatment of Publications in Multiple Formats: Proposals initiated by the ISDB Review Group
• World-Wide Review of consolidated edition of ISBD (2006)
• World-Wide Review of ISBD(A) (2006)
• World-Wide review of ISBD(CM): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Cartographic Materials , 2004 revision
• World-Wide Review of ISBD(ER) (2004)
• World-Wide Review of ISBD(G) (2003)
• 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)   NEW

International Council on Archives (ICA)

• ICA Home Page
• ISBD(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