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Yee, Martha M. – Library Quarterly, 1987
Reviews attempts by Library of Congress in the 1940s to resolve the cataloging crisis that preceded changes in cataloging rules in the 1950s and 1960s. Recommendations of an unpublished report on reorganization, simplified cataloging, cooperative cataloging, personnel policy, and cost analysis changes are examined, and results of implementation…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Cost Effectiveness, History