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The '''Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules''' (AACR) are the standard by which the old, fusty paper cards in drawers in libraries were written. Designed to condense the relevant data of a book down to what would fit on a card when manually typed on it, these standards called for a number of obscure abbreviations, some in Latin. The format is used within records given an overall format under the standard of [[MARC]] (Machine Readable Cataloging). It was desperately in need of an update for the digital age, and this came in the form of its successor, [[Resource Description and Access]] (RDA).

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules|Wikipedia article]]
* [http://www.aacr2.org/ AACR official organization]
* [http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/behind-the-scenes/2014/06/16/a-change-in-the-world-of-cataloguing A change in the world of cataloguing]