Simple Library CatalogingAmerican Library Association, 1927 - 95 pages |
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A. L. A. catalog abbreviation accession number accession record alphabetic place American library association Andrew Andrew Lang anonymous arranged author and title Author card author heading author's name Barnaby Rudge beginning Bible book numbers Booklist card catalog card for fiction card for non-fiction Chapter Charles Dickens Chicago classification number collation collection contents copy copyright date Cutter Dewey Decimal classification dictionary catalog Dombey and Son edition editor Enter extension cards give guide cards Henry Cabot Lodge Illus imprint joint authors L. C. cards Library Bureau Library of Congress Lodge and Theodore main card main entry Mann Master Humphrey's clock necessary old curiosity old curiosity shop pseudonym public library publisher reference card Sears second indention series note shelf-list cards small library society Song of Roland subject card subject entry subject heading list Theodore Roosevelt title card title-page reads top line tracing U. S. History word Zona Gale
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Page 28 - Consider the statement specifying the edition as a part of the title. It is to be given in the language of the book and in the order of the title-page, except that customary abbreviations may be used.
Page 20 - Initial capital letters are to be used for names of persons, personifications, places, and bodies, for substitutes for proper names, and for adjectives derived from these names; for the first word of the title of a book; in title entries (anonymous works, periodicals, etc.) for the second word of the title if the first is an article.
Page 15 - General treatment. See ALA rules, 119-20, and Cutter, 123-24 and 131-32. Under the term " anonymous classics " are included epics, national folk tales and some other works whose authors are unknown and which have appeared under various forms of title, either in the original or by translation (eg The Arabian nights' entertainments, The thousand and one nights, Stories from the Arabian nights, Book of the thousand and one nights, Tales from the Arabic, etc.) so that entry under the first word of the...
Page 13 - Enter a married woman under her latest name unless she has consistently written under . . . her maiden name or the name of a former husband.
Page 86 - ... 2. Each of two or more volumes of essays, lectures, articles, or other writings, similar in character and issued in sequence, eg, Lowell's Among my books, second series.
Page 34 - 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 7 - Get the best advice obtainable; consider the library's field and its possibilities of growth, and let the first work on the books be such as will never need to be done over. To classify books is to place them in groups, each group including, as nearly as may be, all the books treating of a given subject — for instance, geology; or all the books, on whatever subject, cast in a particular form — for instance, poetry ; or all the books having to do with a particular period of time — for instance,...
Page 31 - Give (under the author) a list of the contents of books containing several works by the same author, or works by several authors, or works on several subjects, or a single work on a number of distinct subjects,1 especially if the collective title does not sufficiently describe them.2 1 As a collection of lives.
Page 15 - Commentaries with the text, and translations, are to be entered under the heading of the original work ; but commentaries without the text under the name of the commentator. 1 8. The Bible, or any part of it (including the Apocrypha) in any language, is to be under the word
Page 73 - Arrange titles beginning with numeral figures (not expressing the number of the work in a series, § 330) as if the figures were written out in the language of the rest of the title.