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Cataloguing and classification in british university libraries: a survey of practices and procedures

Abstract: A survey was made by questionnaire of cataloguing and classification in fifty‐one university libraries. The returned questionnaires revealed many, differences in the classification systems, cataloguing codes, and filing rules used, as well as in the kind and amount of detail in a catalogue entry. There were wide variations in the estimates by libraries of the annual output of a hypothetical ‘average’ cataloguer. There was little uniformity in the statistical data collected by libraries of the work of their cataloguing departments. Little use was made of existing centralized cataloguing services and reasons for this are suggested. More study of user's catalogue needs is necessary. The problems of standardization must be resolved if mechanized techniques are to be fully exploited.

The Library of Congress: Its Role in Cooperative and Centralized Cataloging

Abstract: THEMOVEMENT, if such it can be called, toward centralized cataloging in the United States is a venerable one with a documented history of one hundred and twenty years, and it is more than likely that unknown librarians had conceived of it still earlier in a conceivably happier age when librarians were not conditioned to break into print with every wave of thought. The history is long and faltering; it is studded with the names of men who were giants of librarianship; it is replete with vast dreams and crushing disappointments. But now, in this second half of the twentieth century, the old hopes for a comprehensive plan of centralized cataloging from the Library of Congress appear to be on the threshold of realization. Centralized and cooperative cataloging first reached print with the oft-told story of Charles Coffin Jewett’s proposal that the Smithsonian Institution accumulate stereotype blocks of its cataloging and that of other libraries for the mutual benefit of al1.l Either because of technical difficulties or because of the administrative conflict between Jewett and Joseph Henry, the Secretary of the Institution, the plan came to naught. Had Jewett’s view prevailed, the Smithsonian libraqi might have become the national library of the United States and centralized cataloging a reality almost half a century before the Library of Congress assumed the task. Jewett’s plan was significant, not alone because of his plan for stereotyped entries, but equally because of his recognition of the need for uniform cataloging. The year 1876 saw the founding of the American Library Association, and from that day to this it has been goading and encouraging the Library of Congress, first to embark upon and later to expand its programs of cooperative and centralized cataloging. At the Philadelphia convention at which the ALA was founded, Melvil Dewey raised

The identification of data elements in bibliographic records

Abstract: : Contents: Data elements - conventional representation; Identification of elements; Comments on books and conventional cataloging; Comments on serials; Comments on journal articles; Comments on technical reports, Comments on conferences; Data elements - generalized representation; Local elements.

International Implications of The Shared Cataloging Program: Planning for Resource Development

Abstract: Although the instnunentality we discuss today is called the \"Shared Cataloging Program,\" and although central to the enabling Federal legislation (Titie II-C of the Higher Education Act of 1965) was the desire of research lib« rary officials in the United States to reduce the increasing amount of dupliz { cative cataloging all have been engaged in, nonetheless U is clear that this ; impressive undertaking developed logically out of the long-standing efforts on behalf of those same libraries to perfect a national resource development l program. We are, in point of fact, concerned here with a new \"National j Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging\" (NPAC), äs the overall effort at | the Library of Congress is officially designated. Title II-C is indeed an essential handmaiden of resource planning in the United States and we expect ; increasingly, äs I will indicate, to call on her Services to that important end. «. The \"Shared Cataloging Program\", in which many other countries are already so helpfully participathig, is a major cataloging instrumentality, ' especially äs we envision the total bibliographical implications which are dis\\ cussed in other papers at this Session. But the dynamic end product, for research libraries in the United States at least, is an extension of our continuing resource development efforts. As to whether a similar advantage will be ; feasible and useful for libraries in other countries, I am of course in no j position to judge. However, other countries may wish to consider an analog | to the American experience, so I will in due course raise a few questions i with that international possibility in mind. Under the epochal Title -C legislation, which was drafted by the Assoj ciation of Research Libraries in consultation with officials of the Library of j Congress, that Library is provided authorization for: (1) acquiring, so far \\ äs possible, all library materials currently published throughout the world

A classification and retrieval system for recorded foreign language tapes.

Abstract: Le Language Centre de TUniversite d'Essex proposa en 1964 un plan pour les collections de specimens de langues etrangeres enregistres sur bände magnetique. En 1965 un Foreign Language Recordings Project fut nomme, confie a un comite et aux frais de la Nuffield Foundation. Des materiaux existent actuellement pour les langues franpaise, allemande, portugaise, russe et espagnole. Le Systeme de classement utilise ä Essex peut offrir un interet pour les autres institutions qui connaissent les memes problemes. Le corpus est d'abord divise d'apres la langue, ayant chacune un chiffre, commencant par 001 selon Pordre d'accession. La premiere lettre refere a la division en langues (F pour le frangais, etc.). La deuxieme est celle entre materiaux litteraires et non-litteraires, la litterature etant ä son tour divisee selon les genres: D = theätre, P = prose, etc. Un enregistrement ayant la cote RV 001 est donc identifie immediatement comme poesie russe, SD 007 serait compris comme piece de theätre espagnol, etc. Pour les enregistrements non-litteraires il a fallu jusqu'ici se contenter de divisions relativement sommaires: chimie, economie, voyages, guerre, etc., qui permettront des subdivisions ulterieures rendues necessaires par Taugmentation des materiaux. Voir le Schema, p. 00. L'Appendice p. 00 donne un ape^u du Systeme. Le Systeme propose n'es t p äs regarde comme un ideal, seulement comme une tentative de maitriser la Situation actuelle ä Essex.

The Anglo‐American Cataloging Rules, 1967

Abstract: FOR CATALOGUERS, and librarians generally, 1967 will prove to be a vintage year, the annus mirabilis for the cataloguer, with the publication in January of the American text of the new Anglo‐American Code. The British text is expected to be published in November. The availability in this country of the American text gives some little time for a preview of the British version. The profession has had ample warning; the new code has had a long gestation period. For the Americans, especially, it is the culmination of many years of effort, from their preliminary second edition of the 1908 code in 1941, through the second edition of 1949, the Library of Congress Rules for Descriptive Cataloging of the same year, the Lubetzky Report of 1953, the Draft Code of 1960, to the Paris Principles of 1961. The present code owes very much to its predecessors, particularly the Paris Principles, which were in effect a set of guidelines agreed on internationally to ensure broad international consistency between any future national codes without spelling out the detailed rules. Except for one or two instances the new code follows the Paris Principles closely.

Soviet Centralized Cataloging: A View From Abroad*

Abstract: IF SOLUTIONS to key library problems are to be sought increasingly at the national and international level there is need for a maximum of comparative data. The experience of the Soviet Union should be instructive as an example of a country with several decades of experience with forms of centralized cataloging, and one which is engaged in new experimentation with catalogingin-source. Have any of the “classic” problems been solved? A survey of the literature today soon runs into the thorny issues of classification. This problem does indeed remain. Other matters are less obvious. There is the challenge of evaluating the cataloging-insource trials initiated in 1959. At the same time there is evidence that the printed cards issued by central agencies are far from abandoned. Of fresh interest is the fact that the distribution of the All Union Book Chamber cards has been refined for 1967. In the scientific and technical information network there appears to be increased emphasis on the standard card-a development that may be less traditional than it seems at first glance, in that the cards for journal articles as well as books are intended to be used by individuals for current awareness and personal files which would link with catalogs in specialized institutions. At the same time the potential of wider service to libraries is gained. In Soviet sources the origins of ideas and practices relevant to centralized cataloging in Russia are traced to the nineteenth century, in particular to Kvaskov’s pamphlet of 1893, The Reform of Library Afairs: Library Cards in Newly Published Books; with a Supplement of Library Cards.l Kvaskov attributed the idea to “friends across the Eleanor Buist is Slavic Bibliographer, Columbia University Libraries, New York. * Book titles in the text are given in English, periodical titles in the original with translation when first cited.

Centralized Cataloging in Great Britain

Abstract: THEIDEA OF centralized cataloging in Great Britain has perhaps been more talked about than practiced. It is a curious fact that the public libraries which were most active during the prewar years in promoting the notion of centralized cataloging are turning away from it while the academic libraries which were least interested in such a prospect then are now turning toward it. A centralized printed card service was begun in Great Britain in 1949 by the London firm of Harrods through its Library Supply Department. This service offered a standard 12.5 X 7.5 cm. catalog card with an entry typographically similar to the Library of Congress card and with similar tracings and other cataloging information. The service survived little more than a year. In 1949, the Council of the British National Bibliography Ltd. was formed as a non-profit-making company limited by guarantee. It had a capital of fifteen shillings and little else, besides a conviction that a national bibliography for Great Britain was needed and would ultimately prove self-supp0rting.l In 1950, the British National Bibliography began publication as a weekly list of current British books.2 In the first year, the entries followed closely the typograpical style of the Library of Congress card. They were cataloged according to the Anglo-American Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries, 1908, with additional rules taken from the ALA Cataloging Rules for Author and Title Entries, 1949. The entries appeared in list form and they did not contain tracings or subject headings; the class number for each entry was based on the Dewey Decimal Classification, 14th edition, with some extensions and modifications to suit the requirements of a large classified subject catalog. In an attempt to offer a compromise centralized cataloging service, the entries in the weekly lists were printed on only one side of a