id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11410 Mahoney, Orcena The Principles of Cataloguing (Book Review) 1961-04-30 2 .pdf application/pdf 1619 71 62 T h e assumption that the catalog should be all things is brushed aside by statements like, T h e catalogue is only part of a whole system of bibliographi- cal references. . . . He makes the statements, T h e function of the catalogue is to interpret the library to the reader and T h e catalogue is an instrument of com- munication and then repeats a few pages later, T h e object of the catalogue is to serve the needs of the reader and T h e catalogue is an extremely complex communication sys- tem. cache/crl-11410.pdf txt/crl-11410.txt