Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - 140 pages |
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abbreviations adjective alphabetical order American Library Association analytical anatomy 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 convenient course cross-references dictionary catalogue divisions Ecclesiastical editions editors England entered Entomology F. J. Furnivall family name Fiction 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 names beginning noblemen noun number of volumes object omit Ornithology Paris persons phrase precede prefix printed pseud pseudonym QUÉRARD reader real name reference Roman rule separate single societies sound specific entry spelling subdivisions subject-entry subject-word surname title-entry title-page title-reference titles of honor translators transliteration treated treatise word write written
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Page 7 - To enable a person to find a book of which either (A) the author^ (B) the title f 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 7 - I shall use the three words Short, Medium, and Full as proper names, with the preliminary caution that 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 single-columned, 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...
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 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 27 - Bodies of men are to be considered as authors of works published in their name or by their authority. The chief difficulty with regard to bodies of men is to determine (1) what their names are and (2) whether the name or some other word shall be the heading. In regard to (2) the catalogues hitherto published may be regarded as a series of experiments. No satisfactory usage has as yet been established. Local names have always very strong claims to be headings...
Page 50 - Enter books under the word which best expresses their subject, whether it occurs in the title or not. It is strange that the delusion ever should have arisen that " a catalogue must of necessity confine itself to titles only of books.
Page 48 - A work treating of a general subject with special reference to a place is to be entered under the place, with merely a reference from the subject. Ex. Put Flagg's "Birds and seasons of New England" under New England, and under Ornithology say See also New England.
Page 104 - ... 29 All persons generally known by a forename are to be so entered, the English form being preferred in the case of ruling princes, popes. Oriental writers, friars, and persons canonized.