Online cataloguing and use of online public access cataloguing is a current trend in the practice of library and information science. The findings of this study have revealed the various areas of online cataloguing being practiced in the university libraries in selected federal universities in Southern Nigeria, resources involved, methods employed, problems and strategies. The interest of scholars has shifted from cataloguing traditional document using the rule book- AACR2, a compendium of principles and techniques for cataloguing print and non-print physical materials, to emphasis on...