A survey on the compatibility rate of Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) catalog cards of National Library and Archive of the Islamic Republic of Iran with Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

The purpose of the present research is to survey the compatibility rate of Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) catalog cards of National Library and Archive of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NLAI) with Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2).
research is a survey of content analysis type and two researcher-made questionnaires have been employed to gather data. Data analysis has been performed using descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage.
data analysis indicated that the average compatibility rate of the descriptive part of CIP catalog cards with AACR2 was 87.12% without consulting the related books and 77.91% with consulting the books.
NLAI thus can be considered as to some extent successful in implementing CIP objectives, and the quality of its catalog cards can be described as desirable.
Keywords: Cataloging in Publication data, Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, National Library and Archive of the Islamic Republic of Iran.