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Library and its Users

Notes Charles Ammi Cutter made the first explicit statement regarding the objectives of a bibliographic
system in his Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog in 1876. According to Cutter, those objectives
were
1. To enable a person to find a book of which either (Identifying objective)
• the author
• the title
• the subject
• the category is known.
2. To show what the library has (Collocating objective)
• by a given author
• on a given subject
• in a given kind of literature
3. To assist in the choice of a book (Evaluating objective)
• as to its edition (bibliographically)
• as to its character (literary or topical)
These objectives can still be recognized in more modern definitions formulated throughout the 20th
century. 1960/61 Cutter’s objectives were revised by Lubetzky and the Conference on Cataloging
Principles (CCP) in Paris.

The latest attempt to describe a library catalog’s goals and functions was made in
1998 with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) which defines
four user tasks: find, identify, select, and obtain.

5.1 Catalog Card

Main Entry e.g.,

Arif, Abdul Majid.
Political structure in a changing Pakistani
villages / by Abdul Majid and Basharat Hafeez
Andaleeb. — 2nd ed. — Lahore : ABC Press, 1985.
xvi, 367p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 969-8612-02-8 (hbk.)

Types

Traditionally, there are the following types of catalog:
• Author card: a formal catalog, sorted alphabetically according to the authors’ or editors’ names
of the entries.

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