CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION OF MONOGRAPHS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH

Abstract

Cataloguing is the description of technical features of a publication and the subject matter it treats, while classification is the arrangement of publications to the classes of knowledge they belong to. This paper elucidates the descriptive cataloguing and classification in library science, and it explains, in the simplest terms, the various librarianship parlances that may serve as encumbrances to prospective cataloguers and classifiers