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Owing to the increased amount of information and the rapid development of technologies, libraries need to work together to catalog precisely and cost-effectively. Cooperative cataloging is the only way that can be used to achieve it. Nowadays, bibliographic utilities and networks have deeply influenced the operations of libraries in the United States, and the methods of cooperative cataloging as well. In the very beginning, this article studies the basic concepts and functions of cooperative cataloging, then presents the effects and problems that bibliographic utilities and networks have caused. At the end of this article, some active solutions are offered to solve these problems.
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