CATALOGUING RULES AND PRACTICE: CHANGES AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, IN ANTICIPATION OF A REVISED CODE

The changes in cataloguing rules and practice that were put into operation in the Library of University College, London, in the summer of 1955 cannot in the nature of things compare in scope or elaboration with the new scheme of classification, the main features of which were described by Mr. Garside in Vol. 10, No. 4 of this journal. Nevertheless they represent the beginnings of a desirable complement on the cataloguing side to the massive improvements in the arrangement of books inaugurated by the adoption of the new scheme. They are designed to facilitate the finding of books in the catalogue as the classification does on the shelves. Incidentally, they will considerably reduce the need for adding the fourth, alphabetical element of the classmark to the cards. Like the classification, they represent an economy in administration in the long, if not always immediately in the short run.