Adrien Baillet (1649-1706) and His Rules for an Alphabetic Subject Catalog

TL;DR: Auteurs deguisez as discussed by the authors is the first work in French devoted to pseudonyms, written by the late seventeenth-century scholar and librarian, Adrien Baillet, and published in Paris in 1690.

TL;DR: In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries many of the key issues in book selection which still occupy our attention today were discussed by librarians and other scholars concerned with the rational development of library collections for research or instruction.

TL;DR: Hanson and Daily as mentioned in this paper trace the development of catalogs from ancient times to the middle of the twentieth century, and also trace the history of cataloging rules and principles through the many codes of practice that have been developed over the years.