1. Seymour Lubetzky
1898 - 2003
Cataloguing Theorist, Teacher, Prominent
Librarian

2. Education and Career
Highlights
 Education
 BA from UCLA
 MA UC Berkeley
 General Secondary Teachers Credential
 Certificate of Librarianship
 Career
 Sequoia National Park Library, accessions
assistant (1936-1942)
 UCLA, cataloguer; reviser; chief classifier (1936-
1942)
 Library of Congress, Chief, Catalogue
Maintenance Division (1943-1960)
 UCLA Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies, Professor (1960-1967)

3. Major Contributions
 Publications
 Cataloging Rules and Principles (1953)
 Code of Cataloging Rules, an unfinished draft
(1960)
 Principles of Cataloging (1969)
 Major Influence in
 The development of the “Paris Principles”
 The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR
and AACR2)

4. Conclusion
 Lubetzky was an unrivaled cataloguing theorist
in the 20th century
 A remarkable individual who was fluent in 6
languages
 Lived to the age of 104 and contributed to the
field of modern cataloguing for close to sixty
years.