8. What do you estimate that it cost your library in 1912 to catalog a book, including accessioning, classification, shelf-listing and preparation for the shelves?
9. Give any special information about your library that will enable the committee to understand particular phases of your cataloging work.
Libraries Included in the Investigation
University and Reference Libraries
- Columbia University Library.
- Harvard University Library.
- Princeton University Library.
- University of Chicago Library.
- Yale University Library.
- John Crerar Library.
- Library of Congress.
- New York Public Library, Reference Department.
- New York State Library.
- Newberry Library.
Public Libraries
- Boston Public Library.
- Brooklyn Public Library.
- Buffalo Public Library.
- Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh.
- Chicago Public Library.
- Cincinnati Public Library.
- Cleveland Public Library.
- Philadelphia Free Library.
- St. Louis Public Library.
- Toronto Public Library.
A request was read from the catalog section, first, that the Executive Board be asked to appoint a permanent cataloging committee to which the questions in cataloging may be referred for recommendations; second, that the Executive Board be asked to send a request to the Librarian of Congress for the publication of the code of alphabeting used in the Library of Congress.
Voted, on motion by Dr. Andrews that the president and secretary be instructed to appoint a committee for this year to whom questions of cataloging may be referred, and that the chairman of the catalog section be consulted as to the proper form of a by-law providing for a permanent committee.