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RDA toolkit contains the online version of Resource description and access (RDA), the current descriptive cataloging standard. It is an integrated, browser-based, online product that allows users to interact with a collection of cataloging-related documents and resources, including RDA: Resource Description and Access. RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. The RDA Toolkit includes: RDA instructions that are searchable and browsable; Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) rule number search of RDA instructions; workflows, mappings: tools to customize the RDA instruction set to support organizational training and processes; two views of RDA content--by table of contents and by element set; the full text of AACR2; links to other cataloging and metadata standards and resources.

Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR2. Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2^nd ed.  2002 Rev.   Chicago: American Library Association, 2002. (For the most up-to-date information, please use Cataloger's Desktop)

AACR2 is the former source of rules for descriptive cataloging.  œ"The rules cover the description of, and the provision of access points for ... library materials" (p. 1)  It details when to use and how to determine the correct form of names and uniform titles. The definitive glossary and rules governing capitalization, abbreviations, and use of numerals in catalog records are found in the appendices.

Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress.  Cataloging Service Bulletin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.

This quarterly publication of the Library of Congress incorporates revisions in both descriptive cataloging practice and subject cataloging usage. Each issue contains an index to all the current Library of Congress Rule Interpretations, the new interpretations, and revisions to the LC subject headings. Publication ceased with no. 128, fall Fall 2010. 

Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. Free-floating Subdivisions: An Alphabetical Index, 19^th ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2007. (Online version can be found in Cataloger's Desktop and in Classification Web.)

This list is an index to the free-floating subdivisions in the Subject Cataloging Manual, including a listing for each subdivision of the free-floating lists where it appears. It also contains citations for subdivisions with specific instruction sheets in the Subject Cataloging Manual.

Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress.   Index to the Library of Congress Cataloging Service Bulletin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.

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