Content standards
- AMREMM (Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts) / Gregory A. Pass ; RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
- DCRM(B) (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books)) / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee ; Policy and Standards Division
of the Library of Congress [Spanish version [PDF]] - Examples to Accompany Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books)
- DCRM(C) (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic)) / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee ; Policy and Standards Division
of the Library of Congress - DCRM(G) (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)) / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee ; Policy and Standards Division
of the Library of Congress - DCRM(MSS) (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts)) / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee ; Policy and Standards Division
of the Library of Congress - DCRM(M) (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Music)) / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee ; Cataloging and Metadata Committee,
Music Library Association ; Policy and Standards Division
of the Library of Congress - DCRM(R) (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (RDA edition) [new] / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
- DCRM(S) (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials)) / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee ; Cataloging Policy and Support Office of the Library of Congress
- ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) (Preliminary consolidated edition, 2007) [PDF] / International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- Full ISBD Examples : supplement to the consolidated edition of the ISBD : International Standard Bibliographic Description (Revised edition, 2013) [PDF] / International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- ISBD(A) (International Standard Bibliographic Description for Older Monographic Publications (Antiquarian) (Second revised edition, 1991) / International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- Standard Citations Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging / Standard Citation Forms Editorial Team, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Controlled vocabularies
- Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging / RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group
- RBMS Controlled Vocabularies, Relationship Designators / RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group
- TGM (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials) / Library of Congress
- TGM I (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I) Subject Terms – Application Guidelines
- TGM II (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II) Genre & Physical Characteristic Terms – Application Guidelines
- AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online) / The Getty Research Institute
- LoB (Language of Bindings Thesaurus) / University of the Arts London
- Sources pour l’identification et la creation de notices d’autorite / Liege Universite
Guidelines & Recommendations
- DCRM and RDA : BSC statement on DCRM and RDA / RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
- Beinecke Rare Book Cataloging Manual / Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library
- Folgerpedia Cataloging Articles / Folger Shakespeare Library