Nature of work. This is professional library work
of highly specialized nature. The public catalog is the key to the
whole library collection of books, pamphlets, pictures, maps, recordings
and microfilms. The cataloger has the job of classifying all library
material according to the contents of such material and with relation
to other material in the library. Author headings, both personal and
corporate, must be established, material classed, subjects assigned
and cards typed and filed. All this work is done according to accepted
form and rule.