3. Historical development of cataloguing codes

3.1. Major cataloguing codes

(i) British Museum code (1841)

(ii) Prussian Instruction (1908) rules for alphabetical catalogues of the Prussian  

 libraries.

(iii) Cutter rules for a dictionary catalogue (1876) 

(iv) LA cataloguing rules for author and title entries.(1908)

(v) ala cataloguing rules second edition (1908)

(iv) LC rules for descriptive cataloguing in the LC (1949)

(vii) Vatican library rules for the catalogue of printed books.

(viii) Anglo-American or joint code (1908) Anglo-American

 cataloguing rules 1967 (AACR I)

(ix) AACR II

nb: catalogue codes are formulated to serve the following functions.

1. To assist information centres develop a uniform approach to the cataloguing of information materials.

2. To encourage the use of the same cataloguing rules so as to facilitate preparation of union catalogues.

3. To facilitate and promote inter-library lending and co-operative cataloguing.

4.To provide rules to be adopted by any library, without the library staff thinking of how to prepare catalogue entries.