Portraits in Cataloging and Classification: Theorists, Educators, and Practitioners of the Late Twentieth Century by Ruth C Carter

In Portraits in Cataloging and Theorists, Educators, and Practitioners of the Late Twentieth Century, you’ll gain greater respect and admiration for those catalogers and classificationists (more broadly, bibliographic organizers) who have made the profession a decidedly human one--much to the benefit of library users the world over. This fun-to-read book is part history, part biography, and part speculation about the future. It will give you plenty of personal insight, philosophy, and background knowledge so you can do your part in keeping this profession a human one as we leave the twentieth century and enter the twenty-first.

You knowledge of the autobiographical and biographical history surrounding the cataloging and classification professions will expand and flourish with Portraits in Cataloging and Classification. You’ll discover what leading educators, theorists, and practitioners in the field have done to ensure its success as a viable and worthwhile occupation, and you’ll explore a variety of descriptions of the past 30 years and possible development the profession may still undergo 30 year in the future. Specifically, you’ll read