CORPORATE AUTHORS AND THE CATALOGUING OF OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS

Abstract

Until recent years in French libraries works emanating from or sponsored by a corporate body were considered anonymous and catalogued as such. And yet, how many librarians working in research libraries could have felt entirely satisfied with this method? Who has not heard readers' complaints and criticisms on the subject? How many of us have not attempted to remedy this by more or less empirical solutions? For works of this kind, indeed, the strict rule of entering anonymous works under the first word of the title often appeared absurd and liable to prevent the reader from finding them. How could a research worker find in the alphabetical author and title catalogue of a university library a given collective publication issued by a research laboratory well known to specialists, if the title‐page of the publication happened to begin with neither the name of the laboratory, nor with the title of the treatise or report in question?

Citation

RUYSSEN, Y., HONORÉ, S. and FUDAKOWSKA, E. (1957), "CORPORATE AUTHORS AND THE CATALOGUING OF OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 132-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026244