Cataloging and Classification, Third Edition, is a text for beginning students and a tool for practicing cataloging personnel. All chapters have been rewritten

Gorman identifies the essential principles of AACR2 and discusses how they can be applied to common cataloging problems. He emphasizes the unity of the code and

Presents the more generally applicable aspects of the cataloging practice in simplified terms, based on the second edition of the Anglo-American cataloging rule

Contains complete text of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2d ed., 1998 rev., including all amendments, all appendices, a fully searchable table of contents