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 CRAWFORD: Would that override the other rule of entering under the
best known form? Would the institution entry override the principle of
entering under best known form?
Mr. HANSON: That rule we have not formulated. We have not considered as
broad a rule as that--entry under best known form. We have tried to lay
down some rule that should govern entry under place and entry under
name; and what we are really trying to get at is best known form.
Miss CRAWFORD: I appreciate that, and there ought to be some ground on
which to make exceptions. I think your distinction between institutions
and societies is a good one. Is not the Y. M. C. A. a good case to make
an exception?
Mr. HANSON: Yes, that is the 21st exception, is it not, under the rule?
The general rule is, "Enter societies under the first word not an
article or serial number, of its corporate name." Then there are 22
exceptions, and we began with the 21st.
L. P. LANE: I don't know whether the practice of the Boston Public
Library is of interest, but personally I incline to the views Miss
Crawford has expressed. The Boston Public Library strives to use the
corporate name where there is a corporate name, carrying that practice,
I think, to an extreme degree, so that they enter Chamber of Commerce
under Chamber of Commerce, so and so. I understand under this rule
Chamber of Commerce would be entered under the name of the place.
Mr. HANSON: Yes. We propose to enter all boards of trade, all chambers
of commerce under the name of the city or state.
Miss KROEGER: That comes under rule 1 i 9: If a body's name begins with
such words as "board," "corporation," "trustees," enter that part of the
name by which they are usually known.
Mr. HANSON: This will be very helpful to the committee, because it shows
that in the case of exception 21 there is a strong sentiment of entering
it under name instead of under place.
Miss CRAWFORD: Would you make that same application to mercantile
libraries? It seems to me in that case the place is what people would
look for, just as they would for a public library.
Mr. HANSON: Yes, personally I should feel disposed to give in on the Y.
M. C. A. question, but not on the mercantile library.
Miss WAGNER: The mercantile library has no general organization. If you
enter the local Y. M. C. A. under the city you are forcing the people to
look in perhaps 30 or 40 places.
Mr. BISCOE: Is it the purpose of the author arrangement to show what the
library has on Y. M. C. A.?
Miss WAGNER: It is the purpose to show what the library owns under the
authorship of the Y. M. C. A. And to find that you force the person to
look into as many different places as there are Y. M. C. A.'s
represented in your catalog. The person who comes to your catalog
wanting to know what Y. M. C. A. publications you have has a right to
find them in one place.
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