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Main Authors: Pratt, Virginia, And Others
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1975
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED105840
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author Pratt, Virginia
And Others
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And Others
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And Others
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contents To Close of Not to Close: Desuperimposition and the Future of the Catalogs. Report of the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs, Committee on Bibliographical Control. Phase I. Pratt, Virginia And Others Cataloging College Libraries Cost Effectiveness Higher Education Indexing Library Automation Library Catalogs Library Planning Library Technical Processes Policy Formation Serials Space Utilization Subject Index Terms Faced with an old and increasingly complex card catalog and with proposed changes in the Library of Congress (LC) cataloging system, the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Library considered methods for dealing with these joint problems of catalog renovation and "desuperimposition"--the LC policy for changing all corporate or personal name entries to conform to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. Recognizing that the immediate abandonment of the card catalog was not feasible, the committee formulated three short-range options: (A) to continue the existing author/title catalog with some split files under superimposed and desuperimposed headings; (B) to continue the existing catalog transferring files to new desuperimposed headings; and (C) to start a new catalog. A was rejected, but B and C were further considered in terms of costs, machine-based cataloging, serials, the subject catalog, authority files, and physical space considerations. A majority of the committee recommended option B. Other recommendations were made for immediate actions and for future research. (SL)
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spellingShingle To Close of Not to Close: Desuperimposition and the Future of the Catalogs. Report of the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs, Committee on Bibliographical Control. Phase I.
Pratt, Virginia
And Others
Cataloging
College Libraries
Cost Effectiveness
Higher Education
Indexing
Library Automation
Library Catalogs
Library Planning
Library Technical Processes
Policy Formation
Serials
Space Utilization
Subject Index Terms
To Close of Not to Close: Desuperimposition and the Future of the Catalogs. Report of the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs, Committee on Bibliographical Control. Phase I. Pratt, Virginia And Others Cataloging College Libraries Cost Effectiveness Higher Education Indexing Library Automation Library Catalogs Library Planning Library Technical Processes Policy Formation Serials Space Utilization Subject Index Terms Faced with an old and increasingly complex card catalog and with proposed changes in the Library of Congress (LC) cataloging system, the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Library considered methods for dealing with these joint problems of catalog renovation and "desuperimposition"--the LC policy for changing all corporate or personal name entries to conform to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. Recognizing that the immediate abandonment of the card catalog was not feasible, the committee formulated three short-range options: (A) to continue the existing author/title catalog with some split files under superimposed and desuperimposed headings; (B) to continue the existing catalog transferring files to new desuperimposed headings; and (C) to start a new catalog. A was rejected, but B and C were further considered in terms of costs, machine-based cataloging, serials, the subject catalog, authority files, and physical space considerations. A majority of the committee recommended option B. Other recommendations were made for immediate actions and for future research. (SL)
title To Close of Not to Close: Desuperimposition and the Future of the Catalogs. Report of the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs, Committee on Bibliographical Control. Phase I.
topic Cataloging
College Libraries
Cost Effectiveness
Higher Education
Indexing
Library Automation
Library Catalogs
Library Planning
Library Technical Processes
Policy Formation
Serials
Space Utilization
Subject Index Terms
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED105840