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
CHAIRMAN: As I understand Miss Ambrose she raises the question how large
a locality might be meant--whether it should go to the limits of a
county or a state. I should have supposed it meant a narrower locality
and would apply to a city or town--a vicinage.
Mr. JOSEPHSON: Perhaps it might be well to let the word "local" mean
here what it means in "local geography"--anything belonging to the
state--not taking in towns.
I should like to bring up 1 k: "Enter commentaries accompanied by the
full text of the work under the name of the author." And then exceptions
only when the text is not to be readily distinguished from the
commentary. We have a good many cases where the text is particularly
short--a text of from four or five or ten pages--and then comes a
commentary of several hundred pages. It seems absurd to catalog a text
of five or ten pages accompanied by a commentary of five or six hundred
pages under the name of the author of the text.
Miss KROEGER: That is provided for in the rule. "Except when the text is
distributed through the commentary in such a manner as not to be readily
recognized or is insignificant as compared with the commentary." That is
designed to fit just such cases.
Mr. HANSON: There is another rule, on laws, 1 h 3: "Laws on one or more
particular subjects, whether digested or merely collected, to be entered
under the collector or digester, with added entry under country."
I think that is a departure from the present practice, which has been to
enter New York laws on state taxation under New York, State Legislature,
and secondly under compiler or collector.
Miss AMBROSE: If you had a compilation of road laws of Illinois, you
would put that under the compiler first and secondly under Illinois
State Legislature?
Mr. HANSON: Yes.
L. P. LANE: Under 1 h and 1 q I would like to ask whether a proclamation
by the king of England would be put under England, or Great Britain,
King, or under Edward VII.?
Mr. HANSON: We enter such publications in two places; the official
proclamations or edicts under the name of the country with a subdivision
for king or sovereign, and then their private publications under their
names.
Miss CRAWFORD: 1 j: "Enter a periodical under the first word, not an
article or serial number, of its title."
What is the judgment of the committee upon newspapers? Should they
always be entered under the first word of their title, or would it be
better to enter under the name of the place?
Miss KROEGER: We consulted Mr. Fletcher about the rules, and he
suggested this very point, bringing up the question of newspapers. And
we have a rough draft of a rule to enter newspapers under the name of
the place, putting the name of the place in brackets and not in the
title. 1 j also brings up the question as to whether it is to be under
the first word of the current title or of the original title.
Miss GRAHAM: 1 i 15: "Exhibitions under the name of the place where they
are held."
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