CATALOGUING OF INFORMATION MATERIALS
1. Definition of terms and purpose of cataloguing
1.1. Purpose of cataloguing
Catalogues are prepared whenever a collection grows too large to be remembered item for item.
They facilitate retrieval of item or parts of items for actual us.
. They are also useful inventory records since in especially a large collection .
They help us to know what has been acquired, lost, replaced, withdrawn or shifted to another section.