This comprehensive handbook illustrates and applies the new cataloging rules in the MARC21 environment for every type of information format -- from books to electronic materials to music and beyond.

Describing manifestations and items -- Describing persons -- Describing families -- Describing corporate bodies -- Describing geographic entities -- Describing works -- Describing expressions -- Recording relationships -- Printed books and sheets -- Cartographic resources -- Unpublished manuscripts and manuscript collections -- Notated music -- Audio recordings -- Moving image resources -- Two-dimensional graphic resources -- Three-dimensional resources and objects -- Digital resources -- Microform resources -- Bibliographic records serials and integrating resources -- Analytical description.