id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-10987 Lubetzky, Seymour The Function of the Catalog 1956-04-30 3 .pdf application/pdf 2066 68 58 For while the book is readily identified by the author and title given on the title page, the work embodied in it may be issued simultaneously under different titles, as under a British title and an American title, or may be issued successively under different titles and also under different names of the author if the author has not always used his real name or has changed his name in the course of time. A n d why, then, should the biographical infor- mation given in the catalog include only names, dates, and certain titles of the people entered and not also data about their occupation, interests, marital status, residence, etc., as other biographical ref- erence works do? cache/crl-10987.pdf txt/crl-10987.txt