Italian cataloguing rules and international tradition : toward new principles and new codes

Bianchini, Carlo and Guerrini, Mauro . Italian cataloguing rules and international tradition : toward new principles and new codes., 2007 In: Medunarodni skup u cast 100-te godisnjice rodenja Eve Verona (International Conference in Honour of the 100th Anniversary of Eva Verona's Birth). Hrvatsko knjiznicarsko drustvo, pp. 397-416. [Book chapter]

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Many current cataloguing codes have their roots in a common tradition started by the 1961 Paris International Conference on Cataloguing Principles (ICCP). Since 1961, the construction of new national codes had been based on the sharing of cataloguing principles, on agreements for international cooperation, and on a common tradition. The new technological and international environment suggests, more and more, a redesign of those principles to include more suitable features and to assert firmly that the highest principle is the convenience of the users of the catalogue. Within this framework, the authors analyze the Italian cataloguing tradition and its relationships with the international tradition and recount the main activities towards a revision of the present Italian code – Regole italiane di catalogazione per autori (RICA). The paper shows that, since the first Italian rules written by Fumagalli, special attention has been paid to the international tradition (in particular toward Panizzi’s rules). After describing the relationships among the international trends and the Italian codes of 1922, 1956 and 1979, the article deals with the recent works of the new Commission that, since 199

Item type:	Book chapter
Keywords:	Eva Verona, bibliographic control, national cataloguing codes, ISBD, FRBR, Croatian cataloguing rules
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis.
Depositing user:	Mauro Guerrini
Date deposited:	16 Sep 2009
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:15
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13564

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