ABSTRACT
In 1965, a cataloger’s desk was likely to include a typewriter, catalog card stock, the red book, A.L.A. Cataloging Rules for Author and Title Entries, and the green book, Rules for Descriptive Cataloging in the Library of Congress, both published in 1949. There was plenty of cataloging to be done, because funds available for acquisitions, particularly in academic libraries, had increased 14-fold in the previous ten years. 1 At the same time, there was a shortage of professional catalogers, and library administrators were seeking ways to reduce cataloging backlogs and lower the cost of cataloging, such as through shared cataloging.
