Rules for the compilation of the catalogue
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Rules for the compilation of the catalogue

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These are known as the first cataloging rules, and the ancestor of the rules in use today in Anglo-American libraries. Panizzi had 91 rules for how to create an entry in the catalog, and argued that uniformity was necessary to make the catalog useful.

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