The (Statement of) International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) define(s) the foundation for the creation of bibliographical cataloging rules for libraries. The ICPs are an initiative of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to modernize and replace the old Paris Principles (PP).

The ICPs were drawn up at conferences, the IFLA Meetings of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (IME-ICC), on four different continents: in Frankfurt am Main (2003), Buenos Aires (2004), Cairo (2005), Seoul (2006) and Pretoria (2007). First published in 2009, they were revised again in 2014 and 2015. A new ICP edition was published in 2016.

The ICPs are intended as a global guideline for the development of cataloging regulations. They aim to achieve uniformity in both formal and subject indexing and have been created for all types of media (not just books).

The ICPs build on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBRs) and other catalog traditions and, together with the FRBRs, form the basis for the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard.

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Further reading

  • Guerrini, Mauro [in Italian] (2005). Bianchini, Carlo [at Wikidata]; De Laurentiis, Rossano [at Wikidata] (eds.). Verso nuovi principi e nuovi codici di catalogazione (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard. ISBN 88-86842-76-7.
  • Guerrini, Mauro [in Italian] (2009). . Bollettino AIB (in Italian). XLIX (2): 213–146.
  • . International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. 2009.
  • [Statement of International Cataloguing Principles] (PDF) (in German). Translated by Oehlschläger, Susanne. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. 2009 [2008]. (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-18. (18 pages) (NB. Official German translation.)
  • IFLA Cataloguing Standard Committee; IFLA Committee of Standards (January 2018) [2017, December 2016]. [Statement of International Cataloguing Principles] (PDF) (in German). Translated by Behrens, Renate; Töpler, Ingeborg; Aliverti, Christian. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-27. (NB. Official German translation.)
  • Genetasio, Giuliano [at Wikidata] (2012). . JLIS.it (in Italian). VIII (3): 4936-1 – 4936-18. doi:. Archived from on 2018-04-12.
  • Guerrini, Mauro [in Italian]; Genetasio, Giuliano [at Wikidata] (2012). I Principi internazionali di catalogazione (ICP). Universo bibliografico e teoria catalografica all'inizio del XXI secolo (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Editrice Bibliografica. ISBN 978-88-7075-713-2.
  • Kasprzik, Anna (November 2014). [Predecessors of the International Cataloguing Principles]. Perspektive Bibliothek (in German). Vol. 3, no. 2. pp. 120–143. doi:. eISSN . from the original on 2021-07-28.