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Fear of Filing.
Gorman, Michael – American Libraries, 1981
Reviews problems for users created by the complexities of past practices for filing catalog cards, and describes some features of the new, more user-oriented ALA filing rules. (LLS)
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Cataloging, Filing, Library Catalogs
COM, Anglo-American Cataloging Rules II and All That Jazz.
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Morris, Leslie R.; Brautigam, Patsy – Catholic Library World, 1980
Discusses some of the reasons for closing the card catalog or keeping it open, and suggests several alternatives, i.e., computer output micro catalogs, online catalogs, and book catalogs. Instructions are also given on how to use the AACR2 rules. Six references are listed. (LLS)
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Cataloging, Filing, Library Catalogs
LC News.
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Kohl, David F. – RQ, 1980
Explores the differences between the filing rules designed by the Library of Congress and those of the American Library Association. (FM)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Filing, Library Catalogs, Library of Congress Classification
Adapting an Existing Card Catalog to AACR 2: A Feasibility Study.
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Kline, Peggy S.; Taylor, Marion R. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1980
Tests the practicality of adapting the present Emory University Woodruff Library card catalog to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2 by examining all personal and corporate name access points in a sample of recently cataloged titles. (FM)
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Feasibility Studies, Filing
The ALA Filing Rules: Flowcharts Illustrating Their Application, with a Critique and Suggestions for Improvement.
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Wellisch, Hans H. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
American Library Association Filing Rules (1980) are displayed in form of flowcharts, and filing operations are analyzed. Suggestions for improvement in areas of numerals, modified letters, non-roman scripts, and random filing of identical entries are made; omissions are pointed out; and some mistakes are corrected. Twenty-three sources are cited.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Filing, Flow Charts, Information Storage
Freeze Not, Fear Not.
Wellisch, Hans H. – American Libraries, 1980
Discusses problems involved and describes procedures for integrating card catalog entries made according to the Anglo American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), into an existing author/title file. The fear that integration of the new AACR2 headings into existing files would create bibliographic chaos has proved to be unfounded. (LLS)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Card Catalogs, Cataloging, Filing
AACR2, OCLC, and the Card Catalog in the Medium-Sized Library.
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Hostage, John – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1982
Analyzes the impact of AACR2 on the card catalog in a medium-sized library using a random sample from a year's cataloging. Rates of conflict, amount of corrections, and creations of split files under different conditions are considered. Data are presented in four tables and a reference list is attached. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, College Libraries, Comparative Analysis
Filing, Filtering, and the First Few Found.
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Buckland, Michael K.; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1993
Discusses the traditional alphabetical arrangement of library card catalogs and suggests this order should be reconsidered in online catalogs. Online searching in library catalogs is described; the ordering of records in online catalogs is examined; and filtering is considered as a method to order retrieved sets of bibliographic records. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Filing, Higher Education