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The dictionary catalog sets out with another object and a different method, but having attained that object — facility of reference — is at liberty to try to secure some of the advantages of classification and system in its own way.

Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue - Page 57
by Charles Ammi Cutter - 1891 - 140 pages
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Public Libraries in the United States of America: Their History ..., Part 2

United States. Office of Education - 1876 - 100 pages

...library in the belief that it will thus best aid those who would pursue any extensive or thorough study. The dictionary catalogue sets out with another object...without any relation to one another, each useful in itselfbut only by itself. But by a well-devised network of cross-references the mob becomes an army...

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Rules for a Dictionary Catalog

Charles Ammi Cutter - 1904 - 228 pages

...will thus best aid those who would pursue any exten. sive or thorough study. The dictionary catalog sets out with another object and a different method,...Club-foot next to Clubs, and Communion to Communism, while Bibliography and Literary history, Christianity and Theology, are separated by half the length of the...

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