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crl-10625	Thompson, Lawrence S.	Lehrbuch der Sachkatalogisierung (Book Review)	1951	1	.pdf	application/pdf	700	23	46	T h e text is divided into four sections: ( 1 ) Historical development of subject cata- loging together with definitions and a state- ment of functions; (2) T h e problems in- volved in shelving books (formats; shelving in alphabetical order, by numerus currens, by groups, by classification; housing new acquisi- tions; call numbers); (3) Shelf lists in gen- eral and for shelving by numerus currens, by groups and in alphabetical order; (4) T h e classed catalog, with discussions of the basis of classification, a description of various classification schemes (with special attention to the basic decimal classification as well as its variants), the logic of form divisions and sub- divisions, the shorthand of notation, conspecti (rotuli) and subject indices and classed cata- logs as shelflists or as^subject guides inde- pendent of shelving systems; and (5) T h e rules for a subject catalog with special at- tention to the form of the headings, filing and a tentative subject heading code. T h e problem of subject cataloging is con- siderably more complicated in Europe than it is in America for the average research li- brary simply because of the age of the hold- ings and the nature of the cataloging tradi- tions.	cache/crl-10625.pdf	txt/crl-10625.txt