Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 4-10, 1901
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Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 4-10, 1901
American Library Association; Library science -- Congresses
Miss WAGNER: I don't see that the public are interested in brackets or
in the word "Anon." It is for the public that the card is being made, I
understand.
Mr. JOSEPHSON: When I spoke I went on the supposition that the title
entry would, as is now usual, give the title only and omit the author's
name from the title. But if, as I hope, the Publishing Board will decide
to have the title-page copied exactly, giving the author's name in the
title as it is done on the title-page, then you don't need to
distinguish the anonymous authors from those who have signed in any
other place than the title-page, except that in the former case you put
a bracket around the name. As to the objection that the public is not
concerned with the brackets, that may be true; but the librarian is very
much concerned with knowing whether a book is published anonymously or
not. I should like to have instead of brackets a footnote, telling
"published anonymously" or "signed at the end of title-page" or "signed
at end of the book."
Mr. FLETCHER: I would like to call attention to one or two things. In
the first place, many popular libraries might like to have extremely
simple cards. They will have to realize that they must take a good deal
of information they do not want if they are to take the cards made for
all libraries. Mr. Josephson's idea is a good one, that technicalities
shall be avoided in favor of good, plain English notes. "Anon." is
obscure to a great many people, while "published anonymously" is pretty
plain English. If such a note follows it is not necessary to use any
brackets.
Mr. JOSEPHSON: I rise to suggest that we should discuss the question of
_size notation_.
Mr. FLETCHER: What we have to consider here is whether this meeting
would favor one method or the other in size notation; and a
consideration of that question might be largely affected by the further
question, Is either of these methods to be followed for the printed
cards? If you should be told that in all probability neither of them
would be followed, it would prevent a good deal of waste of time in
discussing one as against the other. We have two old methods that are
mentioned in the reports. The third method, which finds a great deal of
favor and which may be adopted by the Publishing Board, is that the size
notation shall be represented by a mark giving the absolute measurement
of the book, perhaps in centimeters, perhaps in inches and fractions.
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