Cataloguing Arabic Script Materials: Challenges in Using International Standards and Integrated Library Management Systems

This research focuses on the Arab libraries' challenges in the era of the information revolution that has left its marks and its implications clear to all sectors of society, including the libraries that cannot lag behind the spirit of the age. How the Arab libraries could contribute to the international cataloguing community; should we contribute in the development phase and only testing phase or we are still behind. The findings of this paper aim at giving better understanding to the challenges being experienced by Arab libraries depending mainly on new brand international standards such as RDA and BIBFRAME. Moreover, this research will be focusing on the usage of Arab libraries subscribing to OCLC and AUC.