A New Manual of Classification Rita Marcella & Robert Newton © Rita Marcells and Robert Newton 1994 ISBN 0-566-07547-4
This new manual builds upon the work of its predecessor Sayer's Manual of Classification for Librarians 5th Edition. It aims to maintain the traditions established by Sayer's and seeks to fulfil the same aims - that is to provide a clear and comprehensible overview of classification theory, policy, and practice, and to provide a description of the major general classification systems. Much valuable material has been taken from the earlier editions, but every effort has been made to make the coverage of work today as current as possible. This would apply, for instance, in the discussions of the use of classification in a variety of environments, and when investigating the impact of new technology. In this sense the book is very much a 'new' manual.
Now that classifcation is taught and studied in very diffrent ways and levels in library and information schools, a book which surveys, summarises and comments on the enourmous body of work that exists on classifcation will be very useful to lecturers, students and librarians.
Guide to the Use of Books and Libraries Third EditionJean Key Gates Copyright © 1962, 1969, 1974 by mcGraw-Hill, Inc ISBN 0-07-022983-X (pbk)
The purpose of this book - as was the purpose of the first and second editions - is to provide a brief but comprehensive treatment of books and libraries, with emphasis upon the many kinds of library materials, their organization and arrangement, and their usefulness for specific purposes. particualr attention is paid to academic libraries and to ways of using them most effectively.
Since it is my belief and experience that effective use of the library has its beginning in an appreciation and understanding of books and of their importance in one's academic and personal life, I have emphsized (1) the historical development of each aspect of the book and the library, and (2) the usefulness of each type of library material for particular purposes.
- from the Preface
