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
Mr. HANSON: He could always find it by cross-reference under the general
Y. M. C. A. to every local Y. M. C. A. represented in the catalog. The
contention at the meeting of the committee was that in a great majority
of cases a man is interested in a particular Y. M. C. A. If he comes to
study all Y. M. C. A.'s the catalog must make provision to help him.
CHAIRMAN: I am one who maintains the thesis that no one has a right to
expect to find everything pertaining to Y. M. C. A. under Y. M. C. A. in
the author catalog.
Miss WAGNER: It seems to me in the author catalog you have a right to
expect to find what the author has written, therefore you have a right
to find what the Y. M. C. A. is responsible for.
Mr. BISCOE: Why isn't it the same thing to expect to find out everything
about the Episcopal church under "Episcopal church"? Isn't every branch
of the Episcopal church a part of the general Episcopal church?
Miss WAGNER: The answer in our library would be that nobody asks for
that information, as they do for the Y. M. C. A.
CHAIRMAN: Are you sure the reason they ask for the Y. M. C. A. in that
way is not because you catalog it that way, and they have learned to
look for it there?
Miss WAGNER: My answer is that for the last seven years we entered Y. M.
C. A. under place. The change was made in agreement with the demand at
the issue desk.
CHAIRMAN: That is just the kind of thing we want to find out.
Miss CRAWFORD: Under 1 i 12 what would you advise regarding the Carnegie
libraries which in large numbers have assumed the name Carnegie since
the endowment of the building? Would you give them all as Carnegie
libraries of so-and-so, or would you still preserve the form showing the
library was supported by the city in which it was? For example,
Pittsburgh Carnegie Library and Atlanta Carnegie Library--introducing
the word Carnegie right after the city? Or would you advise putting the
word Carnegie for all of these libraries?
Mr. HANSON: I have not had to deal with that question. I should think
they would be entered under the name of the city, and then if you want
to bring the entire Carnegie record together you can make a second
entry.
CHAIRMAN: This raises the question whether or not the designation
"Carnegie library" is an official one. If it is not, then it is a name
which has come up by common consent, and it seems to me that nothing but
time would enable us to determine exactly how it should be treated; the
conservative thing would be to use the name of the place.
Miss AMBROSE: I would like to hear an expression of opinion--it is the
same principle in three different places, 1 i 4, 1 i 5 and 1 i 16--as to
entering professional schools, libraries and observatories separately if
they have distinctive names separate from the corporations that they
belong to.
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