Review article: Seymour Lubetzky Writings on the classical art of cataloguing

Greig, Eugenie

Australian Library Journal 2002 51 (4)1222
(ReLIS:jul:juljuh:y:2002:v:51:i:4:p:1222)

Abstract:

This volume is of major importance for much more than its historical value in the annals of cataloguing. I think 'classical' in this context should be taken as signifying ideas firmly based on consistent reasoning - not just as traditional cataloguing in comparison with more 'mechanical' approaches to the topic, or as a practice fixed in some bygone 'golden age'. There is no time-warp here: the skill and clarity of Lubetzky's views, his expression of them and his emphasis on objectives and principles, make his writings a useful model in any current re-thinking of access provision by author and title.

Keywords: Australia ; Catalogación
Pages: 1222
Volume: 51
Year: 2002
Issue: 4

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