The goal of LIBR1005 is to introduce us to Descriptive Cataloguing by teaching us how to prepare an original catalogue record using Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) and following the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) as our guide. As I understand it, original cataloguing is the process of preparing a bibliographic record from scratch without the aid of a pre-existing record of the material or resource being catalogued. This makes me think that original cataloguing is a time consuming process because we are creating a new record completely from scratch. In descriptive cataloguing we study the part of cataloguing that deals with the bibliographic and physical description of a bibliographic record that is being created for use within a library.
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