Journey of Catalogue from Panizzi's Principles to Resource Description and Access.

This paper discusses that cataloguing continues to be basic tool of knowledge organisation which has taken over even the function of classification bringing together similar ideas accessible on multiple points. It traces the history of cataloguing and individual contributions made by Panizzi, Lubetzky, Cutter, and Ranganathan who laid the foundation for modern cataloguing. It discusses the background of Resource Description and Access (RDA) code as development over AACR-2. The conceptual model of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) along with its new terminology and basic principle of entity-relationship have been explained. While discussing new features of RDA, it has also been compared with AACR-2 to show the main difference between the two. It concludes that RDA is a descriptive catalogue code with metadata structure with added scope and advantages over AACR-2R but with mixed professional reaction on its adoption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]