The article addresses the issue of the cataloguing rules used in Slovenia within the COBISS shared cataloguing system. The outdated cataloguing codes (PPIAK, AIK), and undocumented updates, modifications, and cataloguing practice from the last 14 years have created in the time of high-speed technological changes more and more difficulties in the development and operation of the COBISS system.
The article presents downloading of bibliographic records from foreign databases to the COBISS system, serials from the ISSN database and monographs from WorldCat.
This paper describes initial phases of the project on implementing authority control in the COBISS system: analysis of names and subject headings in the COBIB union database, generation of the CONOR prototype database and preparation of the working draft of COMARC/A, Format for Athority Data.
