[log in to unmask]" type="cite">One of the key questions, for which we do not currently have an answer, is: What are the goals of the catalog? Cutter had his, in 1876...
The latest version of the International Cataloging Principles has these goals...
I think these ICP principles are pretty bizarre
1st. Has the library such a book by a certain author? Have you Bell on the Brain ? Have you John Brent, by Theodore Winthrop ? 2d. What books by a certain author has it ?' What other books by Winthrop have you? 3d. Has it a book with a given title? Have you John Brent ? 4th. Has it a certain book on a given subject ? Have you a pamphlet on the bull-frog, by Professor -I've forgotten his name? 5th. What books has it on a given subject? Have you anything on glaciers? What have you on philosophy? I wish to see all the books. 6th. What books has it in a certain class of literature? What plays have you ? What poems ? 7th. What books have you in certain languages? What French books have you? How well provided are you with German literature?Cutter's catalog was created to answer most of these types of questions asked by people in 1876. While such questions are still asked today, the range of questions has become much broader--and I suspect the questions asked by the public were already much broader than those provided by Cutter in his day as well. But Cutter had to start somewhere.
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