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CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION IN BRITISH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: A SURVEY OF PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

JOAN FRIEDMAN (Postgraduate School of Librarianship, Sheffield)
ALAN JEFFREYS (University of Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne)

Journal of Documentation

ISSN: 0022-0418

Article publication date: 1 March 1967

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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.

Citation

FRIEDMAN, J. and JEFFREYS, A. (1967), "CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION IN BRITISH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: A SURVEY OF PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 224-246. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026433

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MCB UP Ltd

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