The acquisition and cataloging of books
Subtitle: papers presented before the Library institute at the University of Chicago, July 29 to August 9, 1940
By: edited by William M. Randall, with an introduction by Louis R. Wilson.
Contributors: Randall, William Madison, 1899-,
Series: The University of Chicago studies in library science
Publisher: University of Chicago press
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Library science; Cataloging; Classification -- Books.
Table of contents: value: The technical processes and library service, by W.M. Randall.- The responsibility of American libraries for the acquisition of materials for research, by W.W. Bishop.-  Problems in the acquisition of research materials, by R.B. Downs.-  The essentials of an acquisition program, by K.D. Metcalf.-  Administration of serial and document acquisition and preparation, by A.F. Kuhlman.-  The internal organization of the catalog department, by W.E. Wright.-  Alternatives for the present dictionary card catalog, by Fremont Rider.-  The classification of books in retrospect and in prospect: a tool and a discipline, by Grace O. Kelley.- Reclassification and recataloging of materials in college and university libraries, by M.F. Tauber.-  Costs of technical operations, by R.A. Miller.-  The union catalog idea, by A.B. Berthold.-  Problems in aiding scholarly research through bibliographical and other devices, by Conyers Read.-  The research worker's approach to books - the humanist, by Pierce Butler.-  The research worker's approach to books - the scientist, by R.R. Shaw.-  The consumer and the catalog, by Winifred Ver Nooy.-  Microfilm and libraries, by H.H. Fussler.-  The teaching of technical processes, by Margaret Mann.-  Selected reading list (p. 382-395)