Excerpt from The Anglo-American Agreement on Cataloging Rules and Its Bearin on International Cooperation in Cataloging of BooksOf these efforts, perhaps the most notable was the issue of printed catalog cards for a number of current books in English undertaken by the Publishing Section of the American Library Association in 1896 The range of literature covered was too limited, how ever, to secure very extensive patronage, the Association being prevented by lack of funds from organizing the work on a scale which would render it more effective. The libraries on their side objected to an arrangement by which they were obliged to subscribe for all cards issued instead of a selection representing the books of which they were the actual or prospective possessors. The time was accordingly ripe for a movement toward cooperation on a larger and hence more effective scale when the Association at its regular meeting of 1900, at Montreal, Canada, devoted one of its sessions to the consideration of this question alone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.