The application of Anglo-American cataloging rules (AACR2) in indexing Arabic manuscripts
Abstract
Several indexes of Arabic manuscripts and literature related to manuscripts have been issued. It has been observed that each index of these indexes means a collection of manuscripts for a specific library or institution, and each of them has followed an approach that appears to non-specialists in the field of libraries as close, but librarians interested in the field of indexing see that these methods followed To the emergence of a large RBK in the indexing of manuscripts, because those who are interested in manuscripts from non-librarians view the manuscripts from their specialized point of view as historians or interested in heritage, and then they deal with the issue of indexing it as a case of segmentation from the rest of the other information containers in the libraries besides the manuscripts, while We, as librarians, look at manuscripts as an integral part of the librarys totals. Therefore, the indexing of these manuscripts must be subject to the same rules that libraries follow in indexing their other groups in order for these manuscripts to be placed in the librarys indexes in line with the general index situation that was originally found in the library in order to Perform specific functions, especially his job of accessing any cultural material (including manuscripts) in artistic ways subject to codified rules.