The extent to which central libraries of state universities in Tehran use bibliographic records of Latin books in the National Bibliography of Iran

The present research evaluates the extent to which the central libraries of state universities in Tehran use the bibliographic records of Latin (Non-Persian and Arabic) books in the National Bibliography of Iran. The methodology was survey research and a questionnaire as a tool for data collecting was distributed to cataloguers of the study population (including 13 central libraries). The findings showed that none of the libraries followed new policies which National Library of Iran uses for cataloguingLatin books (only the description area of bibliographic records in National Library of Iran is catalogued using the original language of the book, but other parts are all in Persian). 13.2 % of the cataloguers catalogue the Latin books in their original language and 76.3% of them catalogue Latin books in English. Therefore there should be some changes to cataloguing procedures in the note and subject access areas. 55.3% of the cataloguers have used English language for the notes area. While none of them suggested using Persian language for the subject area i.e. the current method of National Library. Instead 57.9 % chose to use English for the subject area.