About the Book: Cataloguing in the New ERA: Gazing Through the Bodleian Cataloguing to RDA Library cataloguing is at a crossroads due to the introduction of the newly developed cataloguing code RDA. Conversion of library catalogues from AACR2 to RDA has become a huge burden for libraries and information centres. This book brings together almost all the descriptive cataloguing codes of the modern era to evaluate RDA, and it suggests alternate ways of implementing the new cataloguing standard. A thorough study of AACR2 and RDA has also been done to highlight the basic differences between the two. The book illuminates, with modern illustrations, the contributions and relevance of Ranganathans

INTRODUCTION 1. Catalogue and Cataloguing 2. Origin, Growth, and Development of Cataloguing Codes 3.Dynamism in Descriptive 4. FRBR: Now and Then 5. Development of Cataloguing theory and Canons of Ranganathan 6. Comparative Study of the Revisions of AACR2 Since 1978 7.Rules of AACR2 and RDA 8. Implementation opf RDA Bibliography INDEX