Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue / U. S. Bureau of Education Special Report on Public Libraries—Part II, Third Edition

by Charles A. Cutter

MEANS.

• 1. Author-entry with the necessary references (for A and D).
• 2. Title-entry or title-reference (for B).
• 3. Subject-entry, cross-references, and classed subject-table (for C and E).
• 4. Form-entry [5] (for F).
• 5. Giving edition and imprint, with notes when necessary (for G).
• 6. Notes (for H).

[4] Note to second edition. This statement of Objects and Means has been criticized; but as it has also been frequently quoted, usually without change or credit, in the prefaces of catalogues and elsewhere, I suppose it has on the whole been approved.

[5] Here the whole is designated by its most important member. The full name would be form-and-language entry. Kind-entry would not suggest the right idea.