{titling} is a package providing control over the \maketitle command. For general questions about titles and title pages, use {titles}. For questions about lower-level titles like \section and \chapter, use {sectioning} instead.
The titling package provides control over the typesetting of the \maketitle command and \thanks commands, and makes the \title, \author and \date information permanently available. Multiple titles are allowed in a single document. New titling elements can be added and a titlepage title can be centered on a physical page. (quoted from http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling)
