Goal
Charles Ammi Cutter made the first explicit statement regarding the objectives of a bibliographic system in his in 1876. According to Cutter, those objectives were
1. to enable a person to find a book of which either (Identifying objective)
- the author
- the title
- the subject
- the category
is known.
2. to show what the library has (Collocating objective)
- by a given author
- on a given subject
- in a given kind of literature
3. to assist in the choice of a book (Evaluating objective)
- as to its edition (bibliographically)
- as to its character (literary or topical)
These objectives can still be recognized in more modern definitions formulated throughout the 20th century. 1960/61 Cutter's objectives were revised by Lubetzky and the Conference on Cataloging Principles (CCP) in Paris. The latest attempt to describe a library catalog's goals and functions was made in 1998 with ] (FRBR) which defines four user tasks: find, identify, select, and obtain.
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