Soon after that Adnan t ken also published a book . While the National Library was using these rules, the Ministry of National Education published rules for the classification and cataloguing of manuscripts and early printed books in 1958 and book cataloguing rules in 1961. The latter was used by school, public and child ren's libraries until quite recently. While all these works were carried out in Turkey, the first edition of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules was published in 1967. Turkish university and research libraries started to use AACR soon aft er its publication.
Librarianship is a profession of standards.
Application of such a variety of rules in the country stimulated library managers and academics in the departments of librarianship. Work started on the unification of rules applied in various libraries to minimize the costs. AACR2 soon started to be used by university and some research li braries in Turkey. At the time of these developments in the field of cataloguing, some university and research libraries and the Parliament Library started work on automation in the 1970's. With the development of au tomated systems, libraries began to use computers for cataloguing work.