You have a favorite novelist and you want to be notified whenever SLU Libraries get a book written by him or her. You're doing a long-term project on a topic and you want to be notified when SLU ...

Seymour Lubetzky, a leading theorist in the field of descriptive cataloging who was instrumental in changing the way bibliographic information is organized, has died. He was 104. Lubetzky was admitted ...

If you think it is hard to explain to nonlibrary users what a librarian does, try explaining the job of a cataloger. Not long ago (when I was still in library school), if someone had asked me what ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...