Eleven essays written by librarians define standards and rules, evaluate their current effectiveness, and survey the most recent information available on developments, testing, and implementation of new standards. The discussions address topics in bibliographic control, internationalizing the rules in AACR2, the evolution of LCRIs and MARC, cooperative cataloging, networked information resources, the standards for name and series authority records and for subject access, and automation of the Library of Congress classification.

Contains complete text of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2d ed., 1998 rev., including all amendments, all appendices, a fully searchable table of contents and index, a tutorial, and Folio Views Infobase.