What Cataloging Rules are Needed (followed)?
Regardless of what classification system (Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress) is used, and regardless of what subject heading system is incorporated (Sears List of Subject Headings or Library of Congress Subject Headings), and regardless of what library automation software is used (ALEPH at BHSU, Follett at many school libraries, Voyager at the University of Wyoming, etc.), the rules followed are always the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002 Revision (or AACR2). You need to know, or at least follow, the rules so you interpret what data to take from the item being cataloged, how to abbreviate, code, and punctuate that data, and place it in MARC record format for your OPAC.
