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Entries – formats, kinds and their functions

What is an Entry?
An entry is a record of information for a specific purpose. This information is entered into a ‘ kind of a record. Suppose you have the habit of recording in a diary details of your daily study then as you finish reading this Unit on a particular day you will make an entry in your diary about your completion of the unit that day. Or, again as a householder you keep a memo of your expenditure every month; then, you make an entry in a record about the amount spent on a particular item on a particular day. Similarly, if you make note of a book that you added to the stock of your library you are making an entry in the `Accession Register’.
Information provided in an entry can be very brief as in the case of an entry in an attendance register in a school or a factory, or it can be fairly descriptive as in the case of an entry in a diary. The amount of information to be provided in an entry depends upon the nature of the entry and its purpose.
Catalogue Entry
In the case of a library catalogue you are providing information about a document that exists in the library. This means you are preparing an entry for the document. S.R.
Ranganathan defined an entry as `ultimate unit record in a catalogue or documentation list’.
In a library catalogue entry the information provided may be elaborate or very brief What information is to be given, how much of it should be given, and how the information is to be given are decided according to the need and purpose of a particular catalogue entry.

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Entries in AACR-2R

Entries_AACR

Entries in Classified Catalogue Code

Entries_CCC

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