Cataloguing Principles

Step 1: Understand "Normative Principles". Normative principles are guidelines or rules that set a standard for how something should be done. In cataloguing, they provide a consistent, theoretical foundation for describing documents.

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Step 3: Conclude. S.R. Ranganathan is the figure most associated with creating a deep, scientific, and theoretical framework of normative principles for library science, including bibliographic description.

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Cataloguing Principles

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