The Code and the Cataloguer : Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules held at the School of Library Science University of Toronto on March 31 and April 1, 1967 / Katharine Ball, Katherine Packer, Delores Phillips.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Ball, Katharine, Editor.

Packer, Katherine, Editor.

Phillips, Delores, Editor.

Toronto. University. School of Library Science.

Conference Name:

Colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, University of Toronto, 1967.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anglo-American cataloguing rules--Congresses.

Anglo-American cataloguing rules.

Descriptive cataloging--Rules--Congresses.

Descriptive cataloging.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([xiii], 122 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 1967 the University of Toronto School of Library Science held a two-day colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, the first public discussion of the new cataloguing code. This volume contains the proceedings and discussions of that meeting. It is a useful work for librarians at all levels, giving the background to the new cataloguing rules, the intentions of the Library of Congress about implementation, and some detailed suggestions for their use by the various categories of libraries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Land, R. Brian

Preface / Packer, Katherine H. / Phillips, Delores

Contents

Program of Colloquium

Part I. The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules

Background, Development, Problems, and Essential Characteristics / Spalding, C. Sumner

A Practical Guide for Cataloguers / Spalding, C. Sumner

The Library of Congress and the New Rules / Spalding, C. Sumner

Discussion

Part Two. Implementing the new Rules

Academic Libraries / Dolores, Francis

Public Libraries / Sanner, Marian

School Libraries / Bagshaw, Denis

Union Catalogues / Shepard, Martha

Centralized and Commercial Cataloguing / Remington, David G.

Part III. Summary of Proceedings

Summary of Proceedings / Osborn, Andrew D.

Appendixes

Appendix I. Headings New and Old: An Illustrative Comparison of Results under the AA and ALA Rules

Appendix II. Principal Changes in Descriptive Cataloguing Rules

Appendix III. Application of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules at the Library of Congress

Appendix IV. Application of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules at the Library of Congress

Appendix IV. The Contributors

Index to AA Rule Numbers

General Index

Notes:

"Mr. Sumner Spalding, the editor of the new code, accepted our invitation to the major papers."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7781-8

OCLC:

1129217851