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Acquisitions, cataloging, serials, and special languages are the technical departments of the Campus Library. Together with their divisions, such as binding, photographic services, gift and exchanges, and documents, the departments order, receive, organize, and prepare library material. In 1897, the Catalog Department was formed, with the responsibility for classifying and cataloging all books acquired to make them available for users. In 1904, an Order Department was established for the acquisition of books. During the next thirty years, divisions developed within these two departments. The Catalog Department included general cataloging, serials cataloging and card divisions. The Order Department had purchase, gift and exchange and periodicals divisions. Acquisitions procures western language monographs, and the cataloging department arranges them for use. Except for newspapers, western language serial publications are handled by the serial department. Non-Roman alphabet serials and monographs are responsibility of the special languages department and its three divisions; Far Eastern, South and West Asian, and Slavic.
1. Library Annual Report, 1972-73, p. 3, 9; Library Annual Report, 1974-75, pp. 1-4.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 28th Report, June 30, 1916, p. 25.
3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 41st Report, June 30, 1942, pp. 567, 1105.
4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 48th Report, June 30, 1956, p. 1403.
5. Board of Trustees Transactions, Supplement, 53rd Report, July 21, 1965, p. 163.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Hennepin County Library Catalog Files (Born Digital Records)
5/22/2003
by type of file (bibliographic and authority control)
Bibliographic and authority control files of the Hennepin County Public Library as of February 2002 and October 2001, respectively, contains US MARC records for materials in the Hennepin County Public Library, including locally developed authority control subject headings developed by Sanford Berman and catalogers working under his direction. Files are held on a networked server and backed up to tape and CD-ROM. The files may be browsed by following the link below.