(1) Materials submitted in accordance with 13 CAR § 1-504 shall constitute and be maintained as a separate Arkansas Documents collection at the Arkansas State Library.
(2) Rules promulgated by state government and submitted to the Arkansas State Library in accordance to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, Arkansas Code § 25-15-201 et seq., per Arkansas Code § 25-15-204(e)(1)(B) shall be maintained as a separate collection at the Arkansas State Library.
(b) Classification.
(1) Arkansas State Library staff shall assign Arkansas document classification numbers to all Arkansas state and local publications received.
(2) Classification numbers shall be available to depository libraries through communications from the State and Local Government Publications Clearinghouse.
(c) Cataloging.
(1) Arkansas State Library staff shall catalog state and local publications according to the current professional standards developed by the Library of Congress.
(2) Bibliographic records shall be created according to the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging standard, using the machine-readable cataloging (MARC) record format.
(3)
(A) Bibliographic records for digital items hosted in the Arkansas State Library’s online repository shall be created according to the RDA cataloging standard, using a qualified Dublin Core metadata schema.
(B) Each Dublin Core element in a digital record shall be mapped to a single MARC field so that digital items may be cross-cataloged, with linked records viewable in both the repository and online public catalog.