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  1. ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards
    Second Edition Abridged

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  2. Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  3. Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
    Chapter 6: Separately Published Monographs

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  4. Sanford Berman
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Sanford Berman is a radical librarian (cataloger) known for promoting alternative viewpoints in librarianship.
  5. Cataloging as Radical Practice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Explores the extent to which new technologies and institutional practices are offering opportunities for community input in building/correcting/amplifying catalogue records.
  6. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006
    Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    The Calhoun report draws unjustified conclusions about the digital age, inflates wishful thinking, fails to make critical distinctions, and disregards (as well as mischaracterizes) an alternative “niche” strategy for research libraries, to promote scholarship (rather than increase “market position”).
  7. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  8. Decimal Classificaction
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  9. Library of Congress Authorities
    Resource Type: Database
    Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system. This service is offered free of charge.
  10. "On the Record" but Off the Track
    A Review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
  11. Online initiatives abound at the Library of Congress
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Card catalogues vanish from sight at the Library of Congress.
  12. The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
  13. The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloguing operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences not just in content available onsite and offsite, but also among necessary search techniques. It specifies the differences between scholarship and quick information seeking.
  14. Resolution on the Library of Congress Management's Decision to Cease the Production of Series Authority Records
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  15. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  16. What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them
    And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of "Books on the Fl

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a "digital strategy"
    without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
    depth. If the Library’s own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed
    down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search
    mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of
    ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
  17. What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
    administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings – especially its book collections.
  18. Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.


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