Rules for a Dictionary CatalogueU.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 - 133 pages |
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abbreviations adjective alphabetical order American Library Association analytical anonymous arrangement author-entry author's name Bible Bibliography biographies Boston Athenæum Boston Public Library Botany brackets British Museum capitals card catalogue cata Christian name chronological collection Comparative anatomy compound course cross-references Dict dictionary catalogue divisions Ecclesiastical editions editors England entered Entomology F. J. Furnivall family name first-word foreign forenames form-entry French German give given Greek heading History imprint initials John known language Latin letters Library journal literature logue Lond London Medium merely Museum noblemen noun number of volumes object omit Ornithology Paris persons phrase precede prefix printed pseud pseudonym QUÉRARD reader real name reference rule separate single societies sound specific entry spelling subdivisions subject-entry subject-names subject-word surname title-entry title-page title-reference titles of honor translators transliteration treated treatise vowels word write written
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Page 7 - To enable a person to find a book of which either (A) the author ~i (B) the title > is known (C) the subject J 2 To show what the library has (D) by a given author (E) on a given subject (F) in a given kind of literature 3 To assist in the choice of a book (G) as to its edition ( bibliographically ) (H) as to its character (literary or topical...
Page 100 - 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 109 - When two vowels come together each one is sounded, though the result when spoken quickly is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from a single sound, as...
Page 80 - ... to adjectives and other words derived from proper names when they have a direct reference to the person, place, etc., from which they are derived ; to the first word of every quoted title...
Page 51 - 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 41 - The Alpine Journal ; A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club.
Page 83 - Titles to be arranged alphabetically, according to the English alphabet only (whatever be the order of the alphabet in which a foreign name might have to b'e entered in its original language) under the surname of the author, whenever it appears printed in the title, or in any other part of the book. If the name be supplied in manuscript, the work must nevertheless be considered anonymous or pseudonymous, as the case may be, and...
Page 34 - One who loves his country," "A friend to peace" — or even a shorter appellation — "A lawyer " — is not a name. References might be made from these to the word under which the book is entered, but they would swell the catalogue and rarely be of use. Appellatives beginning with the definite article, like "The Prig...
Page 50 - 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 - ... the Short family are not all of the same size, that there is more than one Medium, and that Full may be Fuller and Fullest. Short, if singlecolumned, is generally a title-a-liner ; if printed in double columns, it allows the title occasionally to exceed one line, but not, if possible, two; Medium does not limit itself in this way, but it seldom exceeds four lines, and gets many titles into a single line. Full usually fills three or four lines and often takes six or seven for a title. The number...