Seymour Lubetzky

?A wonderful addition for cataloging professionals, students, and faculty of library and information science, and librarians.?-Library Journal ?Elaine Svenonius and Dorothy McGarry deserve our thanks and praise for the work they have done in assembling this indispensable volume.?-Cataloging and Classification Quarterly ?I think this is a milestone publication, a refreshing read for all involved with teaching, learning and practising cataloguing, and an encouragement to those concerned with thinking honestly about the principles as well as the nitty gritty of access provision for information in the electronic age.?-Australian Library Journal ?This book is living proof that theory needs to form the strong skeleton of practice, because any practice that is not grounded in theory is destined to fall short of its function. Highly recommended.?-Technicalities ?This volume is of major importance for much more than its historical value....There is not time-warp here: The skill and clarity of Lubetzky's views, his expression of them and his emphasis on objectives and principles, make his writings a useful model in any current re-thinking of access provision by author and title.?-Australian Library Journal "A wonderful addition for cataloging professionals, students, and faculty of library and information science, and librarians."-Library Journal "Elaine Svenonius and Dorothy McGarry deserve our thanks and praise for the work they have done in assembling this indispensable volume."-Cataloging and Classification Quarterly "I think this is a milestone publication, a refreshing read for all involved with teaching, learning and practising cataloguing, and an encouragement to those concerned with thinking honestly about the principles as well as the nitty gritty of access provision for information in the electronic age."-Australian Library Journal "This book is living proof that theory needs to form the strong skeleton of practice, because any practice that is not grounded in theory is destined to fall short of its function. Highly recommended."-Technicalities "This volume is of major importance for much more than its historical value....There is not time-warp here: The skill and clarity of Lubetzky's views, his expression of them and his emphasis on objectives and principles, make his writings a useful model in any current re-thinking of access provision by author and title."-Australian Library Journal

ELAINE SVENONIUS is Professor Emerita, School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). DOROTHY MCGARRY is Professor Emerita, UCLA Library.

Preface Introduction Crisis in the Catalog Capital Punishment for Catalogers? Titles: Fifth Column of the Catalog Manual of Descriptive Cataloging Analysis of Current Descriptive Cataloging Practice The Cataloging of Publications of Corporate Authors Cataloging Rules and Principles Comments on Discussion of Cataloging Rules and Principles Development of Cataloging Rules Non-Author Headings: A Negative Theory Panizzi vs. the "Finding Catalog" Some Observations on Revision of the Cataloging Code The Current Revision of ALA Rules Fundamentals of Cataloging Code of Cataloging Rules: Author and Title Entry Smoke Over Revision The Function of the Main Entry in the Alphabetical Catalogue-One Approach On Teaching Cataloging Background and Underlying Principles Principles of Cataloging, Final Report. Idealogy of Bibliographic Cataloging: Progress and Retrogression The Fundamentals of Bibliographic Cataloging and AACR2 The Traditional Ideals of Cataloging and the New Revision On the Use of Form Headings in an Alphabetical Catalog