ABSTRACT
Published library and archival catalogs are important bibliographic resources not usually considered by students. These catalogs are essentially specialized bibliographies and make it possible for one to identify material in specialized libraries without having to travel great distances to physically check library catalogs. More importantly, many of these catalogs use subject headings specially designed for anthropology, and contain detailed references to articles in professional journals or edited volumes. The importance of published library catalogs is well known to anthropologists. The massive catalog of the Tozzer Library at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, with its four supplements, has become the main bibliography and index for the discipline. The Tozzer Library catalog uses author and subject arrangements developed for anthropologists, and provides both a retrospective periodical index for a field where periodical indexing is particularly poor, as well as subject access to books that might never be found using Library of Congress subject headings.
