The specter of impending change in library catalogues is strong
but not very clear. In an attempt to help the clarification process,
the first part of the present report discusses historical themes from
the modern library catalogue legacy that has developed since the
mid-nineteenth century—the origins and subsequent dominance of
the dictionary catalogue for more than a century, considerations of
library catalogue users and use over the same period, developments
apart from the library catalogue during the twentieth century that
have affected it, and aspects of the idea of the objects of a catalogue.
In a second part, the general environment for the most recent period
of library catalogue development is described, after which aspects of
the historical legacy are used as a basis for raising questions relevant
to impending library catalogue change.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34594
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0023
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