Finding Aid for Books in the History of Cataloging and Classification, 1822-1991 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Books in the History of Cataloging and Classification, 1822-1991

ID: 35/2/55

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Technical Departments

Extent: 3.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: Alphabetically

Subjects: Cataloging, Classification, Library Technical Services

Languages: English

Books and pamphlets relevant to the history of cataloging and classification, donated by Richard D. Spoor, former director of the Union Theological Seminary Library, includes publications by Charles Cutter and Melvil Dewey, and William B. Lacey's sermon, "The Utility of Apprentices Libraries" (1822); and works concerning Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), catalog cards, indexing, international issues, Library of Congress classification and subject headings; and cataloging and classifying Persian materials and Catholic, Judiac, Lutheran, and other religious items; also includes cataloging rules of Belgium, Great Britain, Prussia, and the United States.

Acquisitions, cataloging, serials, and special languages are the technical departments of the Campus Library. Together with their divisions, such as binding, photographic services, gift and exchanges, and documents, the departments order, receive, organize, and prepare library material. In 1897, the Catalog Department was formed, with the responsibility for classifying and cataloging all books acquired to make them available for users. In 1904, an Order Department was established for the acquisition of books. During the next thirty years, divisions developed within these two departments. The Catalog Department included general cataloging, serials cataloging and card divisions. The Order Department had purchase, gift and exchange and periodicals divisions. Acquisitions procures western language monographs, and the cataloging department arranges them for use. Except for newspapers, western language serial publications are handled by the serial department. Non-Roman alphabet serials and monographs are responsibility of the special languages department and its three divisions; Far Eastern, South and West Asian, and Slavic.¹ All the technical departments grew out of cataloging and ordering activities that, in 1916, formed three departments: binding, order, and catalog.² In 1942, the order department received the new designation of acquisitions. Its responsibilities covered photographic services and binding.³ In 1955, several activities of the catalog and acquisitions department were detached and combined to set up the serials department. Its chief tasks have to do with the obtaining, cataloging, and classifying printed matter published at intervals.⁴ In 1964, the special languages department was established.⁵ In 1966, the Automation Division of the Serials Department was formed.

1. Library Annual Report, 1972-73, p. 3, 9; Library Annual Report, 1974-75, pp. 1-4.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 28th Report, June 30, 1916, p. 25.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 41st Report, June 30, 1942, pp. 567, 1105.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 48th Report, June 30, 1956, p. 1403.

5. Board of Trustees Transactions, Supplement, 53rd Report, July 21, 1965, p. 163.

Cataloging
Classification
Library Technical Services

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 11/10/2000, 10/04/2004

Access Restrictions: None: Open for public research.

Other Note: 4 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3502055.pdf

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