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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes page, click Edit for the document library that you want to change. On the Site Settings page, in
the Optional Document Libraries section, click Change document library settings.
On the Change Document Library Settings page, in the Name and Description section, do the
following:
In the Document library friendly name box, type a name for the document library.

In the Document library description box, type the description for the document library.
In the Document Library Contact section, do the following:
In the Contact name box, type the name of the user or group to which you are assigning
overall responsibility for the document library.

In the Contact e-mail address box, type the e-mail address for the contact.
The contact e-mail address can be that of an individual user or a group. This e-mail address is
used as the reply-to address for e-mail messages sent by the document library during document
approval routes.

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Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
7. The word ……………………..may conjure up an image of an old building smelling of even
older books in the mind of the public.
8. The title of the ………………….who works in that setting has also varied and been subject
to contention.

13.5 Corporate Authorship

Corporate authorship has always been a problematic issue, but at the 1961 ICCP, corporate
bodies were recognised as important access points to bibliographic information, and general
principles on corporate entry were laid down in section 9 of the Statement of Principles. However,
in spite of the almost unanimous acceptance of these principles, already Verona’s comments in
the 1971 edition indicated that there was a large gap between practice and theory. To be able to
narrow that gap the need was felt for further analysis. It was undertaken by Verona; the outcome
was published in 1975 as Corporate Headings: Their Use in Library Catalogues and National
Bibliographies). In her introduction to the report Verona wrote that ‘as yet no international
standardisation as to application, interpretation, form and structure of corporate bodies has
been achieved’, and she noted that ‘most of the procedures as prescribed by various codes or
adopted by cataloguing practices, etc., have a distinct tendency to cling to the long-standing
cataloguing traditions of their own country.’
Verona submitted the main problems to a critical analysis and also drew attention to differences
with regard to technical details such as punctuation, capitalisation, transliteration, etc. She
commented that the ‘complete lack of uniformity’ was a very serious obstacle for effective
universal bibliographic control, and argued that national barriers had to be broken down, that
national and local interests should give place to international interests. Differences in practical
application should be reduced to a minimum; complicated and over-elaborate rules should be
avoided, as the average user would not understand them. Later research on catalogue use has

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