Historical perspectives of cataloguing and classification in africa

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 61-77

  Mutula, Stephen M ^a   Tsvakai, Mashingaidze ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

African local materials; Bibliographic control of african materials; Cataloguing african materials; Cataloguing perspectives africa; Cataloguing history africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746622749     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v35n01_05     Document Type: Article

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