STYLE (How to enter) • 61 CATALOGUE • 61 VI. STYLE • 62 A. HEADINGS • 63 B. TITLES (Abridgment, etc.) • 67 C. EDITIONS • 73 D. IMPRINTS • 74 E. CONTENTS AND NOTES • 78 F. REFERENCES • 79 G. LANGUAGE • 80 H. CAPITALS • 80 I. PUNCTUATION, etc. • 81 J. ARRANGEMENT • 83 (a.) Headings • 83 (b.) Titles • 88 (c.) Contents • 92 (d.) Subjects • 93 K. Etc. (Sets, Rare books, etc.) • 98
APPENDICES I. Condensed Rules for an Author and Title Catalog. A. American Library Association • 99 B. Library Association of the United Kingdom • 103 C. Bodleian • 104 D. Dewey’s Rules • 107 II. Transliteration. A. American Library Association • 108 B. Sanskrit • 112 C. Semitic • 113 D. Russian • 114 III. Book sizes (American Library Association) • 115 IV. Alphabetical Order (Edmands) • 116 V. Abbreviations • 119 VI. Other Catalogues for Librarians • 126 VII. Bibliographical aids in cataloguing • 128
No code of cataloguing could be adopted in all points by every one, because the libraries for study and the libraries for reading have different objects, and those which combine the two do so in different proportions. Again, the preparation of a catalogue must vary as it is to be manuscript or printed, and, if the latter, as it is to be merely an index to the library, giving in the shortest possible compass clues by which the public can find books, or is to attempt to furnish more information on various points, or finally is to be made with a certain regard to what may be called style. Without pretending to exactness, we may divide dictionary catalogues into short-title, medium-title, and full-title or bibliographic; typical examples of the three being, 1º, the Boston Mercantile (1869) or the Cincinnati Public (1871); 2º, the Boston Public (1861 and 1866), the Boston Athenæum (1874–82); 3º, the author-part of the Congress (1869) and the Surgeon-General’s (1872–74) or least abridged of any, the present card catalogue of the Boston Public Library. To avoid the constant repetition of such phrases as “the full catalogue of a large library” and “a concise finding list,” I shall use the three words Short, Medium, and Full as proper names, with the preliminary caution that the Short family are not all of the same size, that there is more than one Medium, and that Full may be Fuller and Fullest. Short, if single-columned, is generally a title-a-liner; if printed in double columns, it allows the title occasionally to exceed one line, but not, if possible, two; Medium does not limit itself in this way, but it seldom exceeds four lines, and gets many titles into a single line. Full usually fills three or four lines and often takes six or seven for a title.