On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries and Their Publication by Means of Separate, Stereotyped Titles With Rules and Examples

About this eBook

Author

Jewett, Charles C. (Charles Coffin), 1816-1868

Credits

Produced by Irma Spehar, Katrin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Library catalogs -- United States

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47865

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47865

Release Date

January 3, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Smithsonian Report. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF CATALOGUES OF LIBRARIES, AND THEIR PUBLICATION BY MEANS OF SEPARATE, STEREOTYPED TITLES.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.REPORT. — COPY OF A LETTER
7. 7.REPORT
8. 8.SYSTEM. — SMITHSONIAN CATALOGUE SYSTEM. — DIFFICULTIES IN PUBLISHING CATALOGUES. — PLAN FOR OBVIATING THESE DIFFICULTIES. — APPLICATION OF THE PLAN TO THE FORMATION OF A GENERAL CATALOGUE. — ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THIS SYSTEM OF PREPARING CATALOGUES. — DISTINCTION BETWEEN A CATALOGUE AND A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. — PREPARATION OF TITLES SO AS TO SERVE FOR BOTH GENERAL AND PARTICULAR CATALOGUES. — FORM OF THE CATALOGUE. — NECESSITY OF RULES FOR THE PREPARATION OF CATALOGUES. — DUTIES OF COLLABORATORS AND SUPERINTENDENT. — PRINTING AND STEREOTYPING. — PRESERVATION AND USE OF THE PLATES. — METHOD OF USING THE STEREOTYPED TITLES IN THE FORMATION OF NEW CATALOGUES.
9. 9.RULES. — RULES FOR PREPARING CATALOGUES. — TITLES. — HEADINGS. — CROSS-REFERENCES. — ARRANGEMENT. — MAPS, ENGRAVINGS, MUSIC. — EXCEPTIONAL CASES.
10. 10.EXAMPLES. — REMARKS ON THE EXAMPLES.
11. 11.EXAMPLES.
12. 12.INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
13. 13.EXPLANATIONS OF INITIALS USED IN THE LOCAL INDEX.
14. 14.LOCAL INDEX.
15. 15.Untitled

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.