Part 1 Anglo-American cataloguing rules - a summary bibliographic history: the first joint code and its American revisions; towards AACRI, 1950-67; AACRI, 1967; why revision of AACRI was necessary; AACR2, 1978; revision of AACR2 and the major changes. Part 2 Introduction to AACR2: outline; options and decisions; levels of description; alternative rules; access points; main entry; main entry examples for a printed book; other textual materials; nonbook materials; choice and form of headings. Part 3 Authors, editors, translators and titles: authors; corporate authorship; choice of heading in AACR2 - access points, personal authorship, corporate responsibility; editors - copy editing, advising and co-ordinating, editorial supervision, textual editing, commentaries, revisions, compilations; translators; adapters; supplementary works; titles - uniform title, title entry. Part 4 Personal names: given names and surnames; titles of nobility and honour; standard presentation of names; AACR2 - choice of name in heading, form of name in heading; cross references. Part 5 Geographic names: origins; changes of name; ambiguous names; standardization - permanent committee on geographical names, US board on geographic on geographical names, other official bodies; romanization; geographic names in catalogues - AACR2 choice and form of heading, additions to geographic names, cross references; maps. Part 6 Corporate names: corporate bodies and their nomenclature; choice of name in catalogues; AACR2 - basic rule, changes of name, variant names, subordinate and otherwise related bodies, cross references, direct and indirect entry. Part 7 Conference proceedings: publication and indexing; nomenclature; cataloguing - main entries, who else is involved?, access points, subject cataloguing. Part 8 Serial publications: some definitions and sources; administration of serials; cataloguing - how many records?; subject cataloguing and display, changes in practice; descriptive cataloguing; union catalogues; examples. Part 9 Official publications: the relevance of government publications; some definitions and sources; shelf arrangement; cataloguing - jurisdictions, subordinate agencies of government, government-sponsored bodies, direct agencies of government, command papers and departments of state, departmental committees and royal commissions, changes of name, heads of state, legislatures, laws, courts of law, police and armed forces, treaties, local government documents; catalogues and indexes of government publications - Great Britain, overseas countries, intergovernmental organizations. Part 10 Analytical cataloguing: definition; added entries; 'in' analyticals; multi-level description. Part 11 The reformed library-keeper: perfecting the record; common needs but no common means; the future; factors and traders.
