After reviewing the expert system s benefits to cataloguing and. the related research works abroad,we analyze the characteristics of title pages and copyright pages of Chinese books, the main sources of biblio- graphic data, in the light of linguistics and layout, and present the results of a feasibility study of automatic cataloguing for Chinese books. Four kinds of system models, then, are put forward according to the different requirements of various libraries. In the end, we discuss the technical matter involved in development of expert cataloguing system for Chinese books.