Introduction: The story of catalogue and cataloguing is one of the aspects of the broad panorama of library development. Earlier, libraries concentrated their efforts on the…
Browsing: Library Catalogue
An added entry is “an entry, additional to the main entry, under which a bibliographical entity is represented in a catalogue”. The additional entries supplement the…
The Information Explosion has revolutionized the thinking and outlook of the librarians during recent years. This phenomenon has triggered a series of changes posing corresponding challenges…
Geographical Filing in Library Science The arrangement of material or of entries in a list, catalogue, bibliography, etc. according to place. The term includes both alphabetical…
In a catalogue, individual bibliographic entries are organized into a coherent file. Two predominant methods of organizing the entries are the systematic or classified arrangement and…
Main Entry Among the entries or access points assigned to a catalog record, one is designated as the main entry. The other access points are called…
Access Point: Each bibliographic record is given one or more access points through which the record can be retrieved. For a cataloging record, an access point…
Charles Cutter (1837-1903) was another pioneering librarian. One part of his large body of work was Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog (1876, with several revisions),…
Sir Anthony Panizzi (1787-1879) was a pioneering English librarian whose 91 rules for the British Museum’s catalogue, “Rules for the Compilation of the Catalogue”, are “considered…
Since the Library of Congress was revising its rules for description, the American Library Association decided to omit that portion of the rules from the 1941…