Manuscript Cataloguing Practices at the Tlemcen Branch of the National Center for Manuscripts: A Comparative Study Based on Anglo-American Cataloguing Standards

The process of cataloging is considered one of the most important technical procedures in libraries and manuscript centers, given the major role it plays in facilitating the research process.With the multiplicity of schools and methods of cataloging, manuscript centers have found themselves faced with the inevitability of choosing a specific method as a unified model, which has been embodied in the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), considered among the most widespread methods and standards worldwide.However, in Algeria, several methods are followed, including that of the annex of the National Center for Manuscripts in Tlemcen, which has adopted a different approach.Through this study, we sought to compare it with the Anglo-American cataloguing standards.