Cataloging and Classification, Third Edition, is a text for beginning students and a tool for practicing cataloging personnel. All chapters have been rewritten in this latest edition to incorporate recent developments, particularly the tremendous impact metadata and the Web have had on cataloging and classification.

The works of the renowned Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan - considered the father of library science in India - cover certain facets of library and information science. These library science classics - reprinted by Ess Ess Publications - make Dr. S.R. Ranganathan's work available to the current generation of librarians.

Contains complete text of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2d ed., 1998 rev., including all amendments, all appendices, a fully searchable table of contents and index, a tutorial, and Folio Views Infobase.

A Manual of Cataloguing Practice is a text on cataloguing and covers topics ranging from the major cataloguing codes to the subject catalogue, the name catalogue, and cataloguing of special materials. Physical forms of catalogue are also considered, along with the filing and arrangement of catalogue entries; centralized and cooperative cataloguing; the organization of cataloguing; and the relation of cataloguing to modern methods of information retrieval. This manual is comprised of 16 chapters and begins with an overview of the nature and purpose of catalogues, as well as the history of cataloguing and catalogues. The discussion then turns to the development and application of the major cataloguing codes, including the British Museum Cataloguing Rules; the Vatican Code; the American Library Association Rules 1949; and the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 1967. Some particular problems of author-title cataloguing are considered, together with the solutions suggested by some of the major codes and the practices of some individual libraries. External guides (instructions for the use of the catalogue) and internal guides (""signposts"" within the catalogue) are also discussed. Finally, the future of cataloguing is examined. This book will be a useful resource for practicing cataloguers and librarians as well as students of librarianship.

The book contains useful information on the technologies of cataloguing, evolution of cataloguing codes, structure of library catalogues etc., describing the characteristics of users, their information requirement and other related issues. It also contains a comparative, analytical and critical study that evaluates the works of classification systems. This book will constitute a meaningful contribution to contemporary literature in this crucial area. Students, scholars, academicians besides the professionals in the field, will find this book most useful.

"How to Catalogue a Library" by Henry B. Wheatley is a book on nineteenth-century theories of knowledge organization and retrieval of information. Those who are interested in library work are constantly asked where a statement of the first principles of cataloging may be found, and the question is one that is not easy to answer. Most of the rules which have been printed are intended for large public libraries and are necessarily laid down on a scale that unfits them for use in the making of a small catalog.