The Army Medical Library is using simplified descriptive cataloging rules, and some simplified schemes in the area of subject cataloging, in an attempt to equip the Library as quickly and as efficiently as possible with a really adequate catalog key. To achieve both ends-that of an adequate tool, and that of efficiency and speed-requires that we constantly steer carefully between the Scylla of incomplete records and the Charybdis of the kind of haste which makes waste. So far I think we have managed pretty well, although we occasionally seem to hear the sound of waves crashing against the reefs.
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