Manual of Library Cataloguing

=117.=--The slips being sorted into alphabetical order if a dictionary catalogue, or into classes and divisions if a classified catalogue, are to be laid down on sheets of paper...

has no appearance of difficulty, as it is so obviously upon intemperance, but the question of concentration of books _pro_ and _con_ upon such a subject as this must be looked i...

=40.=--There are further difficulties that arise from time to time in making the author-entry owing to the great variety in the form of authors’ names. The first book we take to...

=75.=--The form of author-entry, or its equivalent, having been settled, the subject-entry now commands attention. The importance of the author-entry is recognised, but it is we...

=57.=--When books are written in collaboration, the customary procedure is to make the entry under the first-named author, if not more than two are given on the title-page, foll...

=28.=--Having laid down some of the general principles to be followed in making the author-entry in a complete form, we proceed to take further examples selected because they ha...

=13.=--Whatever difference of opinion may exist upon various points that arise in cataloguing books all authorities are agreed that the principal or main entry giving the most p...

=107.=--The difference between the dictionary and classified forms of catalogues already referred to in sections 8 and 9 may be further demonstrated by taking the two well-known...

=6.=--The dictionary catalogue is not the idea or invention of any individual, but has developed gradually from the requirements of librarians in dealing with readers. The earli...

It would be within the scope of most catalogues to separately enter under authors and subjects any exceptionally important monographs published with or supplementary to, the tra...

=113.=--On the face of it, it seems a simple affair to arrange slips in alphabetical order--“as easy as a, b, c”--but, judging by the mistakes made, and the small number of pers...

=98.=--The extent to which title-entries, as distinct from subject-entries, are called for in a dictionary catalogue has in some measure been already shown. Works of fiction, pl...

=103.=--The mode of setting-out the contents of books of a miscellaneous or collective character has been referred to in sections 61-62 and it has been pointed out that frequent...

=1.=--Most people are satisfied to believe that there is no department of a librarian’s work so easily managed as that of compiling catalogues. The catalogue of a library is oft...

=69.=--In cataloguing the transactions, memoirs, proceedings and other publications of the learned societies, the societies in their corporate capacity are regarded as the autho...