Rules for a Dictionary CatalogueU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - 140 pages |
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abbreviations adjective alphabetical order American American Library Association analytical anonymous arrangement author-entry author's name Balt Bibliography biographies bodies Boston Athenæum Boston Public Library Botany brackets British Museum card catalogue cata Christian names chronological Church collection convenient course cross-references dictionary catalogue ecclesiastical editions editors England English form entered F. J. Furnivall family name first-word foreign forenames French German give given Greek Hans Droysen Harvard College heading History imprint initials known language Latin letters Library journal list of painters literature logue London Medium Museum notes noun omit Ornithology Paris person phrase precede prefix printed pseud pseudonym QUÉRARD reader real name reference rule separate single societies sound specific entry spelling subdivisions subject-entry subject-word surname tion title-entry title-page translators transliteration treated treatises vernacular vowel word write written
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Page 92 - The Talmud and Koran (and parts of them) are to be entered under those words; the sacred books of other religions are to be entered under the names by which they are generally known; references to be given from the names of editors, translators, etc.
Page 101 - ... 5. The broad features of the system are, that vowels are pronounced as in Italian and consonants as in English. 6. One accent only is used — the acute — to denote the syllable on which stress is laid.
Page 44 - Solar system System. Suspended animation Animation. Zodiacal light Light. Another objection is that in most cases the noun expresses a class, the adjective limits the noun, and makes the name that of a subclass (as International law, Remittent disease...
Page 97 - Latinized. 32 English and French surnames beginning with a prefix or prefixes are to be recorded under the first prefix, and surnames in other languages under the word following the last prefix — except that French names beginning with de or d' are to be entered under the word following de or d'.
Page 43 - E. g., it will not do to confound works on the vegetable kingdom with works on vegetables, in the sense of kitchen-garden plants; the first would be properly entered under Botany. Ottley's "Italian school of design" or a work on " Wagner and his school" are not to be put under Schools.
Page 42 - But the scientific may be preferable when the common name is ambiguous, or of ill-defined extent. (b) is most used in other catalogs. (c) has fewest meanings other than the sense in which it is to be employed. (d) comes first in the alphabet, so that the reference from the other can be made to the exact page of the catalog. (e) brings the subject into the neighborhood of other related subjects.
Page 38 - ... specific" rule in regard to them they must attain a certain individuality as objects of inquiry, and be given some sort of name, otherwise we must assign them class-entry. And it is not always easy to decide what is a distinct subject. Many catalogues have a heading Preaching.
Page 23 - De Morgan writes in the preface to his " Arithmetical Books " " I have not attempted to translate the names of those who wrote in Latin at a time when that language was the universal medium of communication. I consider that the Latin name is that which the author has left to posterity, and that the practice of retaining it is convenient, as marking, to a certain extent, the epoch of his writings, and as being the appellation by which his contemporaries and successors cite him.
Page 71 - They should be brief and pointed. Perhaps after this direction it is necessary to add that they should be true. 4. To lay out courses of reading for that numerous class who are desirous of "improving their minds...
Page 49 - 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.