View from the top: The library administrator’s changing perspective on standardization schemes and cataloging practices in American Libraries, 1891-1901

Reference Librarian

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1983, Pages 11-27

  Wiegand, Wayne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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EID: 84952168331     PISSN: 02763877     EISSN: 15411117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J120v03n09_02     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Julia Pettee. Subject Headings: The History and Theory of the Alphabetical Subject Approach to Books (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1946), p. 3.
2. William Isaac Fletcher. Public Libraries in America (Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1894). p. 52.
3. Frederic Vinton. “Hints for Improved Library Economy. Drawn from Usages at Princeton.” Library Journal 2 (October. 1877), 53.
4. These statistics are displayed and discussed in more depth in Wayne A. Wiegand. “American Library Association Executive Board Members. 1876-1917: A Collective Profile.” Libri 31 (August. 1981). 22-35.
5. For a more detailed account of Spofford’s career as Librarian of Congress, see John Y. Cole led., Ainsworth Rand Spofford: Bookman and Librarian (Littleton. CO: Libraries Unlimited. 1975), especially pp. 32-41.
6. Charles C. Jewett. On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries, and Their Publication bv Means of Separate. Stereotyped Titles (Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 1852), p. 14.
7. Charles A. Cutter, Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876): and Charles A. Cutter (comp.). Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum. 1807-1871 5v. (Boston: Boston Athenaeum. 1874-1882).
8. Proceedings of the American Library Association Conference. 1877 (bound into Library Journal. 2 [1877]), 29: Dewey to Winsor, June 14. 1879, Justin Winsor Letters, bound into 1881 volume of Library Journal and located in the Rosary College Library. River Forest. Illinois.
9. For a more detailed analysis of Winsor s career, see Wayne Cutler and Michael H. Harris (eds.), Justin Winsor: Scholar-Librarian (Littleton. CO: Libraries Unlimited. 1980).
10. Justin Winsor. “An Address,” in University of Michigan Library. Public Exercises on the Completion of the Library Building of the University of Michigan. December 12. 1883 (Ann Arbor: Published by the University, 1884), p. 38. and found quoted in Samuel Roths- tein. The Development of Reference Services through Academic Traditions. Public Library Practice and Special Ubrarianship (Chicago: American Library Association. 1955). pp. 24-25.
11. Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press. 1978). T. Jackson Lears, bio Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (New York: Pantheon Books. 1981). and Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982).
12. William C. Lane, “Cataloging.” in Melvil Dewey ed.l. Papers Prepared For the World’s Library Congress (Washington: Government Printing Office. 1896). pp. 835-849; Library Journal 18 (December. 1893), 528-30.
13. Kathryn Luther Henderson, “Treated with a Degree of Uniformity and Common Sense: Descriptive Cataloging in the United States. 1876-1975.” Library Trends, 25 (July. 1976). 230. For an excellent analysis of the historical development of the use of subject headings in American libraries, see Francis Miksa’s recently published The Subject in the Dictionary Catalog From Cutter to the Present (Chicago: American Library Association, 1983).