Abstract
Developments in technical services since the turn of the century are reviewed by analyzing "A Catechism for Librarians," an unpublished manuscript written by Katharine Sharp (University Librarian at the University of Illinois from 1897 to 1907). Sharp's approach to library administration, acquisitions and collection development, cataloging and classification, acquisitions and collection development, cataloging and classification, binding and preservation, and circulation are compared to methods currently used in public and academic libraries. Library practices have been influenced enormously by developments in technology, most notably the computer, but the basic problems of technical services and the goals of libraries have remained quite similar to those about which Sharp wrote in the early 1900s.
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