ABSTRACT
Many people assume that traditional cataloguing is no longer relevant in the age of the internet and some library schools devote very little attention to what was once regarded as a core skill of the profession. However, law books and other materials are still being published and bought in significant numbers in hard copy and Google is not going to help anyone locate them on the shelves of a law library. Some sort of catalogue is needed which users can search by means of a number of different access points, whether it is title, author, subject or something else, to find the material they need, and someone has to create the catalogue entries. The old 5 x 3 card catalogue filed in wooden cabinets is pretty much a thing of the past now, but there are in use any number of electronic library management systems with cataloguing modules which store the same information, albeit entered differently, via an onscreen form.
