The author's dissertation, summarized in this presentation, was primarily concerned with the question, "Are public schools like Max Weber's conceptualization of bureaucracy?" From a survey of the literature discussing the nature of organizations, a taxonomy of organizational facets was used, first, to identify and classify the features…

This presentation of issues involved in the education of catalogers and classifiers includes discussions of training versus education, theory versus practice, appropriate faculty for and enrollment in cataloging classes, the importance of cataloging and classifying in hiring new librarians, and the responsibility for recruiting, retaining, and…