Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue U. S. Bureau of Education Special Report on Public Libraries—Part II, Third Edition

70. When the author’s name is known, it will be enough for Medium to make not an entry under the first word, but a reference from it to the author. The shelf-mark or class-mark...

Put before the second and following lines of a title 3 em quads. before and after the em dash that denotes repetition an en quad. before and after the double dash (an em dash fo...

Imprints are indispensable in a catalogue designed for scholars, that is for college libraries, for historical or scientific libraries, and for large city libraries. They may no...

Any subdivision of the groups under countries has been strongly opposed as being troublesome to make, useless, and even confusing, or as being an unlawful mixture of classed and...

The 6TH PLAN has the same rules as the 5TH, and _no_ exceptions. It may be preferred by those who think the advantage of having a single uniform rule greater than the inconvenie...

The rule above confines itself to collections. It would be convenient to have full lists of the single works in the library in all the various kinds of literature, and when spac...

It is plain that this practice of entering under the _best known_ name, whether real or false, puts an end to uniformity of entry between different catalogues, leads to inconsis...

It ought also to be noticed that this plan does not escape all the difficulties of the others. In reducing, for instance, Intellectual philosophy or Moral philosophy, will you s...

8. Le Moyen Âge, la Révolution Française, Die französische Revolution. The French, however, now generally print le moyen âge, la révolution française. Capitals are to be avoided...

On the other hand, difficulty arises from the public, or a part of it, being accustomed to think of certain subjects in connection with their including classes, which especially...

_I. e._, «a» (not _ah_) for the sound of _a_ in _father_, «e» (not _a_) for the sound of _e_ in _heir_ or of _a_ in _hate_, «i» (not _e_) for the sound of _i_ in _mien_, «u» (no...

The following are also often useful The Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, 13. Anfl., Lpz., 1882, etc.; Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon; the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Lpz., 1875...

A dictionary catalogue contains class-headings, inasmuch as it contains the headings of extensive subjects, but under them there is no class entry, only specific entry. The synd...

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If the original is not in the library the translation may be arranged either by the first words of its own title or by the first words of the original title prefixed in brackets...

(6) Collections of _two or more works_ of the author, in alphabetical order of the general title of the collection; or, if there be none, of the first work of the collection. In...

abridger abr. afterwards aftw. annotater annot. born b. collector col. company co. commentator comment. compiler comp. continuer contin. died d. department dept. editor ed. Grea...

Numerical symbol Abbreviation Limit of outside formerly used. to be used. height, centimeters. 48º Fe 10 32º Tt 12.5 24º T 15 16º S 17.5 12º D 20 8º O 25 4º Q 30 fº F 40 fº F⁵ 5...

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