International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)

    

 For a larger collection, more elaborate cataloguing rules are required. Users do not want to examine hundreds of catalogue entries or dozens of library items to find a single library holding. Currently, most cataloging rules are similar to, or even based on, the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), a set of rules produced by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to describe a wide range of library materials. IFLA's ISBD Review Group is responsible for maintaining the ISBD. It helps to create a bibliographic description in a standard, human-readable form, especially for use in a bibliography or a library catalogue. The chief purpose of the ISBD is to provide a standard form of bibliographic description that could be used to exchange records internationally. These rules organise the bibliographic description of an item in the 

following areas:

1) Title and statement of responsibility (author or editor)

2) Edition

3) Material specific details (for example, the scale of a map)

4) Publication and distribution

5) Physical description (for example, number of pages)

6) Series

7) Notes, and 

8) Standard Number (ISBN) 

Each book, while, being enlisted in the catalogue has to be described individually. This 

description is called a record of the document. An entry is a single record of a document. 

Entries are prepared by different cataloguing Rules/Methods/Codes. Two methods used 

by most of the libraries in the world are:

AACR-2

MARC 21

The most commonly used set of cataloguing rules in the English speaking world are the 

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition, or AACR-2 for short.

Note: ISBD (s) Estd. 1974.

ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Discription. Developed in 1969 -by IFLA.

ISBD 1st ed. - ISBD(M) M- monographic - Appeared: 1971, Published in 1974.

ISBD (CR): CR - Continuing Resources (2002)

ISBD (PM): PM: Printed Music - 1980.

ISBD (G) : G: General- 1977. It's a foundation of AACR-II.

ISBD (NBM) : NBM: Non Book Meterial - 1977