Arlene G. Taylor

Dr. Taylor is obviously a highly intelligent woman who is well known and respected in her field. However, she seems (to me at least) to belong to that class of people who are brilliant yet unable to explain their field to others. I found this book very dull and technical, even though I don't think cataloging is necessarily a dull and technical occupation. It seems to me that although this book is meant to be an introduction, you need to have at least a minimal background in cataloging in show more order to understand the text. Dr. Taylor's discussion of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR), for example, was much more confusing to me than just reading AACR itself. Overall, I found this book difficult to read and not particularly useful. show less

Heavy, tedious reading but it has everything I need in very clear language. The content is just difficult, not the writing. I prefer this textbook to having to read 50 scholarly articles; I thank my professor for using this medium.

This book is good in that it is technically correct, and it provides a ton of information on cataloguing. However, it is not very accessible! I suppose it is an introduction to the topic, but the writing is extremely dry and rarely engages the reader. Even technical writing like this should have a little life!

Informative, but harder to read than the Chan, which covered much of the same material. Part of it might have been the font. Good examples, though.