The family moved to Philadelphia in 1925, where Tauber completed high school and began to study at Temple University.
[3] After completing his studies, Tauber joined the library at the University of Chicago as Head Cataloguer and soon thereafter became Chief of the Preparations Department.
While Tauber was well-versed in all aspects of library service, he focused on cataloging and classification in his early career.
The authors collected and presented a wide range of information and issues about university libraries in a comprehensive and logical fashion.
The revision of this book, published in 1956, was received with similar interest in the library community, as the volume addressed more contemporary issues of importance for librarians, administrators, and university leaders alike.
[6] In addition to these main areas, Tauber contributed to the field with his studies on library building design and biographies of significant librarians of his time.
Tauber is credited with writing another one of the classic works in librarianship, Technical Services in Libraries: Acquisitions, Cataloging, Classification, Binding, Photographic Reproduction, and Circulation Operations, published in 1953.
In this volume he defines technical services to be “the services involving the operations and techniques for acquiring, recording, and preserving materials (which) are among the oldest aspects of librarianship,” and states that the term ‘technical’ “… denote(s) that certain operations which are usually carried on away from the public desks are likely to be more susceptible to codification than those of the readers' departments”.
[7] As such, technical services has come to be understood as a set of operations, performed away from "direct public contact," including “a) selection, b) acquisition, c) cataloging, d) physical processing, and e) circulation”.
[10] In addition to his successful teaching career, Tauber was an active researcher, writing numerous monographs, reports, articles, reviews, and biographies.
He carried out more than 50 independent and collaborative surveys of libraries in the United States and abroad, including Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.
He held a long affiliation with the American Library Association, serving in various capacities, such as his membership on the Council and Executive Board.
Technical Services in Libraries: Acquisitions, Cataloging, Classification, Binding, Photographic Reproduction, and Circulation Operations.