The Art of Making Catalogues of Libraries: Or a Method to Obtain in a Short Time a Most Perfect, Complete, and Satisfactory Printed Catalogue of the British Museum Library |
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Page 31 - ... classification, and still more difficult to apply it. Persons who wish to consult a classed catalogue are unable to do so before becoming thoroughly acquainted with the arrangement adopted by the compiler; but even then they are not sure of applying the system as he did: they may, therefore, search for a work in a class or section widely different from that under which it is entered. A synopsis of the catalogue, which may assist the inquirer in forming an idea of the plan of classification, is...
Page 12 - Lectures on Architecture and Painting, delivered at Edinburgh, in November, 1853. By JOHN RUSKIN.
Page 59 - ... undertaken, if England, France, Germany, and Italy, would combine. There can be little doubt but that the whole civilized world would rejoice to assist in the noble undertaking. The whole world would thus be converted into a single library, as it were ; all its intellectual...
Page 25 - The formation of the indexes should be regulated by these general principles: "Every heading is capable of receiving entries of two distinct sorts, --the result of two simple operations, or rather the same operation repeated, that is, an Index to the words of the inventory, and then an Index to the Index itself. . . . The result of the former is a general alphabetical finding Catalogue; of the latter a complete classification of all the contents of the Library.
Page 59 - Librarnrian of the Smithsonian Institution has been instructed to make a collection of the Catalogues of all the important Libraries in the United States, and to compile from them one general Index to all the collections of the Country.
Page 16 - A good Catalogue would be a list of all that exists in the Library, not as a matter of arrangement, but as a matter of inventory vouching for the existence of the books in the Library.
Page 10 - But the first is a list of goods; its direct object is to make an inventory of the property by recording a full and exact description of each and every article. The second is but a table of contents of the first, a hand to show the way how readily to find any of the articles as actually entered in the inventory. The first has no particular arrangement beyond the most common process of merely ticketing each article for future reference with a progressive number...
Page 54 - ... every Library. Until a nation possesses a good system of Catalogues, it cannot know the extent of the literary wealth which it possesses. In all the great Libraries of Deposit, there should not only be a collection of all the Catalogues of Libraries existing in the country, but so far as possible, a collection of the Catalogues of all the Libraries in the world. A great Library should in fact contain within it a Library of Catalogues. On a subject of so much importance as the intellectual treasures...
Page 23 - Index to the title-pages being founded 23 on no preconcerted classifications, includes ALL classifications ever contrived or .to be invented ; it admits of the immense variety of topics which knowledge itself embraces and reason or fancy may suggest. It refunds into a single alphabetical arrangement, what classified Catalogues separate into many. The searcher for a book has to make no scientific effort in order to discover under what branch he must look for it-. To him a general Index is a ready...
Page 21 - Freedom is, in all things, an essential condition of growth and power. The purposes of readers in search of a book are as manifold as the names and subjects, or headings under which the book may be traced. Entering the book only once is giving but one of its many references and suppressing the remainder ; — it is serving the purpo.:w of one reader and defeating that of others. So far tho book is withdrawn from the public, its light is extinguished and destroyed.