USING CLASSIFICATION IN TEACHING INDEXING Available to Purchase

The status of cataloguing and classification, Siamese twins if ever there were such, has undergone some sharp ups and downs in Britain and America in the past generation. Until the beginning of the post‐war period, for example, we had in Great Britain the extraordinary situation whereby an exhaustive examination in the pair was the sole content of the basic chartering examination for librarians. By successive revisions of their examination syllabus, the Library Association reduced the emphasis on the subject until a point was reached when, by the operation of exemptions, a graduate entrant could become a chartered librarian without having had any sustained instruction in the fundamentals of cataloguing and classification as such.