This information was printed from Allyson Carlyle’s personal website.
URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/core_readings.html
Contact: acarlyle@u.washington.edu
Last Updated: 30 November 2000
Baker, Nicholson. "Discards." New Yorker. (April 4, 1994): 64-86.
Bates, Marcia. "Rigorous Systematic Bibliography." RQ v. 16, no. 1 (Fall 1976): 7-26.
Bates, Marcia J. "Subject Access in Online Catalogs: A Design Model." Journal of the American Society for Information Science. v. 37, no. 6 (Nov. 1986): 357-376.
Bates, Marcia. "What is a Reference Book? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis." RQ v. 26, no. 1. (Fall 1986): 37-57.
Berman, Sanford. The Joy of Cataloging: Essays, Letters, Reviews, and Other Explosions. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1981: 105-109.
Brault, Nancy. The Great Debate on Panizzi's Rules in 1847-1849: The Issues Discussed. Los Angeles: The School of Library Service & The University Library, University of California, 1972.
Cutter, Charles A. Rules for a Dictionary Catalog. 4th ed., rewritten. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.
Dooley, Jackie M. and Helene Zinkham. "The Object as 'Subject': Providing Access to Genres, Forms of Material, and Physical Characteristics." In Toni Petersen and Pat Molholt (Eds.) Beyond the Book: Extending MARC for Subject Access. Boston: G.K.Hall: 43-80.
Foskett, A.C. The Subject Approach to Information. 5th ed. London: Library Association, 1996.
Foundations of Cataloging: A Sourcebook. Michael Carpenter and Elaine Svenonius, eds. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985. Especially: Panizzi, Cutter, Pettee, Osborn, Lubetzky, Verona, Wilson. But, all are core!
Frost, Carolyn O. Cataloging Nonbook Materials: Problems in Theory and Practice. Ed. Arlene Taylor Dowell. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1983. Especially: Chapter 2: "Bibliographic Concepts and Their Application to Nonbook Materials" pp. 33-61.
Furnas, George W., Louis M. Gomez, Thomas K. Landauer, Susan T. Dumais. "Statistical Semantics: How Can a Computer Use What People Name Things to Guess What Things People Mean When They Name Things?" Human Factors in Computer Systems, Proceedings, Marc h 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Association for Computing Machinery, 1981: 251-253.
Headings for Tomorrow: Public Access Display of Subject Headings. Prepared by the Subcommittee on the Display of Subject Headings in Online Public Access Catalogs, Subject Analysis Committee, Cataloging and Classification Section, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. Chicago: American Library Association, 1992.
Hirons, Jean and Crystal Graham. "Issues Related to Seriality." The Principles and Future of AACR: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Toronto, Canada, October 23-25, 1997. Jean Weihs, Ed. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1998: 180-212.
International Federation of Library Associations. Statement of Principles Adopted at the International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, October, 1961. Annotated ed. with commentary and examples by Eva Verona. London: IFLA Committee on Cataloguing: 1971.
Layne, Sara Shatford. "Integration and the Objectives of the Catalog." in The Conceptual Foundations of Descriptive Cataloging. Ed. Elaine Svenonius. San Diego: Academic Press, 1989: 188-195.
Layne, Sara Shatford. "Some Issues in the Indexing of Images." Journal of the American Society for Information Science. v. 45, no. 8 (Sept. 1994): 583-588.
All of Lubetzky is core, but I've listed my favorites here, in alphabetical order:
Lubetzky, Seymour. Cataloging Rules and Principles. Washington: Processing Dept., Library of Congress, 1953. Especially: Chap. 1 "Is This Rule Necessary?" pp. 1-15.
Lubetzky, Seymour. Code of Cataloging Rules: Author and Title Entry. An Unfinished Draft... American Library Association: March 1960. Read the Dunkin explanatory commentary, too!
Lubetzky, Seymour. "The Function of the Main Entry in the Alphabetical Catalog - One Approach" In: International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, October, 1961, Report. London: IFLA, 1963: 139-143.
Lubetzky, Seymour. Principles of Cataloging. Los Angeles, Calif.: Institute of Library Research, University of California, July 1969.
Madison, Olivia M.A. "The Role of the Name Main-Entry Heading in the Online Environment." The Serials Librarian. v. 22, no. 3/4 (1992): 371-391.
Mai, Jens-Erik. "Deconstructing the Indexing Process." Advances in Librarianship, v. 23 (2000): 269-298.
Mann, Thomas. Library Research Models. New York: Oxford, 1993.
Mann, Thomas. "Cataloging Must Change!" and Indexer Consistency Studies: Misreading the Evidence at Our Peril." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. v. 23, no. 3/4 (1997): 3-45.
Massicotte, Mia. "Improved Browsable Displays for Online Subject Access." Information Technology and Libraries. v. 7, no. 4 (Dec. 1988): 373-380.
Mellon, Constance. "Library Anxiety: A Grounded Theory and Its Development" College and Research Libraries 47 (March 1986): 160-165. Not about cataloging per se, but I think you'll see why I include it after you read it.
Osborn, Andrew D. "The Crisis in Cataloging." Library Quarterly 11 (October 1941): 393-405.
Panizzi, Sir Antonio. "Mr. Panizzi to the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere.--British Museum, January 29, 1848." in Foundations of Cataloging: A Sourcebook. Michael Carpenter and Elaine Svenonius, eds. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985, pp . 18-47.
Pettee, Julia. "The Development of Authorship Entry and the Formation of Authorship Rules as Found in the Anglo-American Code." Library Quarterly, v. 7 (July 1936): 270-290.
Ranganathan, S. R. Elements of Library Classification. 3rd ed. (Indian) Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1962.
Ranganathan, S. R. Prolegomena to Library Classification. 3rd ed. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1967.
Svenonius, Elaine. "Access to Nonbook Materials: The Limits of Subject Indexing for Visual and Aural Languages." Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 45, 8 (Sept. 1994): 600-606.
Svenonius, Elaine. "Bibliographical Control." in Academic Libraries: Research Perspectives. Ed. by Mary Jo Lynch and Arthur P. Young. Chicago: American Library Association, 1990, pp. 38-66.
Svenonius, Elaine. "Bibliographic Entities and Their Uses." in Proceedings of the Seminar on Bibliographical Records, held in Stockholm, 15-16 August 1990. Ed. by Ross Bourne. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1992, pp. 3-18.
Svenonius, Elaine. "Design of Controlled Vocabularies." in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. v. 45, sup. 10. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990: pp. 82-109.
Svenonius, Elaine, ed. The Conceptual Foundations of Descriptive Cataloging. San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Especially: All of the Svenonius introductions, Wilson, Delsey, Duke, Attig, Tillett, O'Neill & Vizine-Goetz, Layne.
Svenonius, Elaine. "An Ideal Classification for an On-Line Catalog." Classification Theory in the Computer Age: Conversations Across the Disciplines. Albany, NY: Rockefeller College Press, 1989: 35-43.
Svenonius, Elaine. The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.
Svenonius, Elaine. "Unanswered Questions in the Design of Controlled Vocabularies." Journal of the American Society for Information Science. v. 37, no. 5 (September 1986): 331-340.
Theory of Subject Analysis: A Sourcebook. Eds. Lois Mai Chan, Phyllis A. Richmond, and Elaine Svenonius. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985.
Tillett, Barbara B. "A Taxonomy of Bibliographic Relationships." Library Resources & Technical Services. v. 35, no. 2 (April 1991): 150-158. Other readings of Tillett's regarding her work on bibliographic relationships are also important (also published in issues of LRTS following this one).
Vellucci, Sherry L. "Uniform Titles as Linking Devices." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. v. 12, no. 1 (1990): 35-62.
Wilson, Patrick. Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Especially: "Subjects and the Sense of Position" and "Describing and Exploiting."
Yee, Martha M. "Integration of Nonbook Materials in AACR2." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. v. 3, no. 4 (Summer 1983): 1-18.
Yee, Martha M. "Manifestations and Near-Equivalents of Moving Image Works: Theory, With Special Attention to Moving-Image Materials." Library Resources & Technical Services. v. 38, no. 3 (July 1994): 227-255.
Yee, Martha M. "What is a Work?" Parts I-IV ... [4 articles total] Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. v. 19 & 20 (1994 & 1995).
These are readings in serials cataloging that I've found useful and stimulating.
Bartley, Linda K. and Regina R. Reynolds. 1988. "CONSER: Revolution and Evolution." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 8 (3/4): 47-66.
Bernhardt, Melissa M. 1988. "Dealing with Serial Title Changes: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, v. 9 (2): 25-39.
Carson, Doris M. 1977. "What is a Serial Publication." Journal of Academic Librarianship. 3 (4): 206-209.
Cole, Jim E. 1991. "Final Thoughts on the Entry of Serials; or, Reaching a Logical Conclusion." The Serials Librarian, 20 (4): 1-24.
Pulsifer, Josephine. 1977. "The Special Problems of Serials." Library Trends. 25 (3): 685-702.