Manual of Library Economy: Third and Memorial EditionBrown, James Duff
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Manual of Library Economy: Third and Memorial Edition
Brown, James Duff
Libraries -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Library science -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
=289. Placard Catalogues.=--The most ordinary form of placard catalogue
is a manuscript or printed list of books on a large sheet or sheets,
which is framed and hung on the wall where readers can see it. There are
several varieties of these framed lists, which are used chiefly for
lists of additions. A form giving the power of moving single entries has
been devised in England which is better than anything else usually seen.
This consists of a frame with a movable back, on which vertical xylonite
slips are fastened in such a way as to form long columns with flanged
sides. Under the flanges can be slipped pieces of cardboard the width of
the columns, which slide up and down in the length of the column as
required. The titles of new books can be written on these cards and
arranged in any order. If blank cards are left between every letter of
the alphabet or every class, additional entries can be added at any
moment. If several frames are used, some hundreds of new books can be
catalogued, and when full the entries can be transferred to the printed
bulletin, or otherwise utilized, to free the frames for further
additions. The illustration given above will show the nature of this
adjustable accessions catalogue, which corresponds in principle with the
adjustable Periodical List.
=290. Panoramic Catalogues.=--Several methods have been proposed or
devised for displaying catalogue entries on an endless chain in a
panoramic or continuous form, but none of them has been generally
adopted.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (CHAPTERS XVI.-XVIII.)
The principal literature of the subject of cataloguing has been
mentioned in the text, and much of the best, more recent writing is in
periodicals; moreover, every general work on libraries has a chapter or
more on the subject. The following is offered as a selection of the
literature in separate form:--
=291. General:=
Bishop, W. W. Practical Handbook of Modern Library Cataloguing, 1914.
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.
Delisle, Léopold. Instructions Elémentaires et Techniques pour la Mise
et le Maintien en Ordre des Livres d’une Bibliothèque, 1910.
Thorne, W. B. First Steps in Library Cataloguing, 1917. L.A.A., Series
8.
Wheatley, H. B. How to Catalogue a Library, 1889. Stock.
=292. Codes, Rules, etc.:=
Aberdeen University Library. Condensed Cataloguing Rules, 1914.
New York State Library School. Fellows, J. D. Cataloguing Rules: for
the Course in Elementary Cataloguing, 1914. Library School, 36.
Wisconsin University Library School. Turvill, Helen. Cataloguing
Rules, 1912.
=293. Annotation:=
Savage, E. A. Manual of Descriptive Annotation in Library Catalogues,
1906. Grafton.
Sayers, W. C. Berwick. First Steps in Annotation in Catalogues, 1918.
L.A.A., Series 9.
=294. Children’s Catalogues= (see also Division XIII.):
Sayers and Stewart. Catalogues for Children: with a Code of Rules,
1905.
=295. Subject Headings:=
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