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Attempts to Deal with the "Crisis in Cataloging" at the Library of Congress in the 1940's.

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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 Recommendations of an unpublished report on reorganization, simplified cataloging, cooperative cataloging, personnel policy, and cost analysis changes are examined, and results of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

The Use of National Public Library Statistics by Public Library Directors.

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Liu, Yan Quan; Zweizig, Douglas L. – Library Quarterly, 2001

A survey was conducted to investigate public library directors' use of the Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data and the Public Library Data Service reports. This article highlights the uses directors made of statistics and the aspects of statistics that they found particularly useful. (Contains 51 references.) (Author/AEF)

Descriptors: Information Services, Library Administration, Library Administrators, Library Directors