How to Catalogue a Library

by Henry B. Wheatley

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INDEX.

• Abstracts of contents, [206].
• —— Rules for a small library, [240].
• Academical dissertations, authorship of, [105].
• "Academies" not a good heading, [213].
• Alphabet, order of English, [198].
• —— Rules for a small library, [243].
• "Anonym" an objectionable term, [129], [136] (note).
• Anonymous and pseudonymous books, [128]-[53].
• —— Definition of an anonymous work, [129].
• —— Headings for, [130], [143].
• —— Bodleian rule, [134].
• —— British Museum rule, [130].
• —— Cambridge rule, [150].
• —— Cutter's rule, [132].
• —— Proposed rules, [133], [237].
• —— Headings to be made on one system, [144].
• —— Rules for a small library, [237].
• Arabic numerals to be used for dates in cataloguing, [164].
• Arrangement, [198]-[227].
• —— Rules for a small library, [242].
• Asterisk, use of, to denote academical dissertation, [121].
• Athenæum Club Catalogue, [61].
• Author of a book, [75].
• —— Not to be invented by misreading the title, [84].
• —— Rules for a small library, [235].
• Authors to be placed under the name they are best known by, [85].
• Baber's (Rev. H. H.) rules, [26].
• Bailey (J. B.), his objection to double-columned pasted-down catalogue, [60] (note).
• —— On the preparation of catalogues of Transactions and periodicals, [213].
• Barbier's definition of an anonymous work, [129]-[30].
• Becket (Thomas à) or St. Thomas, [94].
• Bentham (Jeremy), his name printed "Jéréme" in the British Museum Catalogue, [32].
• Biber (Rev. Dr.) on use of initials as a heading, [145].
• Bibliographies v. Catalogues, [4].
• Bibliography, uses of a, [5].
• Bibliotheca Cooperiana, [19].
• Billings (J. S.), Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, [18].
• Bishops and deans to be arranged under their family names, [87].
• Blackburn's Hints on Catalogue Titles noticed, [153] (note).
• Board of Trade Catalogue, [16].
• Bodleian Library, rules, [46].
• —— Card catalogues at, [63].
• Bodleian Library, Catalogues of MSS., [233].
• Bond (Mr.), bestower of the boon of a printed catalogue for the British Museum, [53].
• Bradshaw (H.), his views as to the index to a catalogue, [12].
• —— On size-notation, [173].
• —— Rule for anonymous works, [151].
• British Museum, Report of the Commissioners on the Constitution and Government of the, quoted 26, [32].
• —— Rules, [25]; their triumph, [48].
• —— Printing of first volume of Catalogue in 1841, [28], [49]-[51].
• —— —— Owing to a blunder, [29].
• —— Various printed catalogues, [31].
• —— Catalogues of MSS., [230].
• —— Classified catalogue of MSS., [231].
• Bruce (John) on the British Museum Catalogue, [36].
• —— On the cataloguing of anonymous works, [141].
• Bullen (G.) in favour of printing the British Museum Catalogue, [53] (note).
• Calendar, French Revolutionary, [168].
• Cambridge Libraries, treatment of size-notation in, [174].
• —— University Library rules, [45].
• —— —— Catalogue of MSS., [234].
• Card catalogues, their spread in America, [62].
• Cards, use of, for variety of classification, [64].
• Carlyle (Thomas), his objection to the British Museum regulations, [34].
• Catalogue, uses of a, [5].
• —— What it is, [1].
• —— To make one not an easy task, [2].
• —— Dangers of division of labour, [2].
• —— Medium between too short and too long, [4].
• —— To be made direct from the books themselves, [14].
• —— How to keep one in print for years, [57].
• Catalogue, Alphabetical, the most useful, [10].
• —— —— of subjects, [15].
• —— Card, its spread in America, [62].
• —— Classed, nearly useless, [9], [11].
• —— Dictionary, rules for, [47].
• —— Raisonné, what it is, [10].
• —— Universal, widespread desire for one, [6].
• Cataloguer always to think of the wants of the consulter, [3].
• Catalogues, treatment of, [123].
• —— —— British Museum rule, [123].
• —— —— Cambridge rule, [124].
• —— —— Cutter's rule, [125].
• —— —— Library Association rule, [125].
• —— Not true books, [126].
• —— Rules for a small library, [237].
• Catalogues v. Bibliographies, [4].
• —— Manuscript, for small private libraries, [71].
• Cataloguing, ignorance of the art of, [33].
• —— Scientific, a modern invention, [13].
• Christian names, not to be contracted, [95].
• —— Mr. Cutter's plan of contraction, [95].
• —— Alphabetical order of, [96].
• —— Rules for a small library, [237].
• Christian names, foreign, turned into surnames, [96].
• Chronograms on titles, [165].
• Cochrane (J. G.) before the British Museum Commission, [33].
• —— His opinion on rules, [34].
• Collation, [178]-[79].
• —— Rules for a small library, [240].
• Collier (J. Payne), his unfortunate catalogue titles, [39].
• Compound names, treatment of, [76].
• —— British Museum rule, [78].
• —— Cambridge rule, [79].
• —— Cutter's rule, [78].
• —— Library Association rule, [79].
• —— Rules for a small library, [235].
• Concordances, treatment of, [127].
• Contents, abstracts of, need of, [206].
• —— Rules for a small library, [240].
• Cooper's (Charles Purton) sale catalogues, [19].
• Co-operative cataloguing, [69].
• Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer, [254].
• Crestadoro (Mr.) proposes index to an inventorial catalogue, [11].
• Croker (Rt. Hon. J. W.) on the British Museum Catalogue, [36].
• —— Plan for pasting down British Museum Catalogue, [71].
• Cross-references, [182].
• Cutter (Mr.) on card catalogues, [62] (note).
• —— On the advantages and disadvantages of printed or manuscript catalogues, [54].
• Cutter (Mr.) on the history of the Dictionary Catalogue, [11].
• —— Classification of libraries, [8].
• —— Definition of an anonymous work, [130].
• —— Definition of an author, [75].
• —— Definition of references, [181].
• —— Rules for the cataloguing of Journals, [224].
• —— Rules for the cataloguing of Transactions, [217].
• —— Rules for a dictionary catalogue, [47].
• —— Rules for pseudonyms, [148].
• Dash as a sign of repetition, [201].
• —— Index Society rule, [201].
• —— Library Association rule, [201].
• —— Rules for a small library, [246].
• Dates, [164]-[68].
• —— Rules for a small library, [239].
• De Morgan (A.) on the blunders of bibliographers, [14].
• —— On the uselessness of a classed catalogue, [9].
• Dictionary Catalogue, history of, [11], [17].
• —— Rules for, [47].
• Dissertations, academical, authorship of, [105].
• Dublin Review, quoted [9]-[11], [14].
• Edition and editor always to be inserted on catalogue slip, [160].
• Editor of a book, [75], [103].
• Edwards (Edward) one of Committee for British Museum Rules, [26].
• Ellis and Baber's Catalogue of the British Museum, [31].
• Fagan's Life of Panizzi, quoted [29].
• French Revolutionary Calendar, [168].
• Friars under their Christian names, [91].
• —— Rules for a small library, [236].
• Garnett (Dr.) on the printing of the British Museum Catalogue, [7], [51].
• Geology, Museum of Practical, catalogue of periodicals in the library, [214].
• Governments to supply catalogue slips, [69].
• Gray (Dr. J. E.) on the British Museum Catalogue, [35], [37].
• Greek and Roman names, [100].
• Greek numerals, table of, [167].
• Gruner's Delectus Dissertationum Medicorum Jenensium, [116].
• Guildhall Library, card catalogue at, [63].
• Haller's Collections of Dissertations, [115].
• Hampshire (History of), wrongly attributed to R. Warner, [102].
• Headings, author, rules for a small library, [235].
• —— Other than author headings, [122].
• —— —— Rules for a small library, [257].
• Hilton's works on chronograms, [165].
• Index of subjects, [191].
• —— to catalogue of Athenæum library, [196].
• —— —— of London library, [196].
• Initials of authors as a heading, [145].
• —— Rules for a small library, [237].
• Jewett (C. C.), his rules for the Smithsonian Institution, [44].
• —— His scheme for stereotyping catalogue titles, [65].
• —— Suggestion for size-notation, [172].
• Jones (J. Winter), one of Committee for British Museum Rules, [26].
• —— His report on Payne Collier's catalogue titles, [39].
• —— On size-notation, [169].
• Journals, cataloguing of, [224].
• —— Extracts from, [210].
• —— and Transactions, whether they shall be catalogued separately or together, [215].
• Langbaine (Gerard), his projected general catalogue, [6].
• Latin names of places, [247]-[54].
• Library Association Rules, [46].
• List v. Catalogue, [1].
• Liturgies, treatment of, [127].
• London Institution Catalogue, [15].
• Madden (Sir Frederick) on the cataloguing of anonymous works, [137].
• Manchester Free Library Catalogue Index, [196].
• Manipulation rules for a small library, [245].
• Manuscript catalogues for small private libraries, [70].
• "Manuscripts, Something About," [228]-[34].
• Married women, their change of name, [99].
• —— Rules for a small library, [236].
• Married women, British Museum rule, [100].
• —— Cutter's rule, [99].
• —— Library Association rule, [99].
• Medical and Chirurgical Society, Catalogue of Periodicals in the Library, [214].
• —— Index to Catalogue of Library, [196].
• Name, change of, [97].
• —— British Museum rule, [97].
• —— Cambridge rule, [98].
• —— Cutter's rule, [98].
• —— Rules for a small library, [236].
• Observations, astronomical and meteorological, cataloguing of, [226].
• O'Donovan's (D.) Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of Queensland, [17].
• Official publications, [105].
• Order of sub-entries, rules for a small library, [244].
• Oriental names, treatment of, [95].
• —— Rules for a small library, [236].
• Oxford libraries, Langbaine's projected catalogue of, [6].
• Panizzi (Sir Anthony), his code of rules, [25].
• —— Objection to print, [49].
• —— On a complete index of a library catalogue, [191].
• —— Views as to the cataloguing of anonymous works, [134].
• —— —— convert the Commissioners, [135].
• Parry (John H.), one of Committee for British Museum Rules, [26].
• —— in favour of print, [49].
• —— On the cataloguing of anonymous works, [136], [152].
• —— On Dr. Gray's suggestions for the British Museum Catalogue, [38].
• —— On an index of subjects, [196].
• Pasting down a catalogue to be done by the librarian, [61].
• Peers to be arranged under their titles, [88].
• —— Bodleian rule, [89].
• —— British Museum rules, [89].
• —— Cambridge rules, [89].
• —— Cutter's rule, [89].
• —— Library Association rule, [89].
• —— Rules for small library, [236].
• "Periodical Publications" not a proper heading for journals alone, [213].
• Periodicals, treatment of, [211].
• Photo-bibliography, Henry Stevens's scheme, [66].
• Place of publication, [163]-[64].
• —— Rules for a small library, [239].
• Places, Latin names of, [247]-[54].
• Poole (W. F.) on the difficulties of cataloguing, [13].
• Præses treated as the author of an academical dissertation, [106], [108].
• Prefixes, treatment of, [80].
• —— British Museum rule, [82].
• —— Cambridge rules, [83].
• —— Cutter's rule, [81].
• —— Index Society rule, [83].
• Prefixes, Library Association rule, [82].
• —— Rules for a small library, [235].
• Print v. Manuscript, [49], [73].
• Pseudonyms, cataloguing under, [147].
• —— Rules for small library, [236].
• Publishers to supply catalogue slips of their books, [69].
• Queensland, Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of, [17].
• References—British Museum rules, [182].
• —— Press-marks to, [183].
• —— Different mode of referencing, [184].
• —— To be in English, [187].
• —— The title not necessarily to be copied, [187].
• —— Not to be classified, [188].
• —— The word "see" can be omitted, [191].
• —— Rules for a small library, [241].
• —— and subject index, [180]-[97].
• —— Variety of, [181].
• Registration office for books, [70].
• Respondent as the author of an academical dissertation, [106].
• Richteri Opuscula Medica, [118].
• Robinson (Otis) on card catalogues, [62].
• —— On co-operative cataloguing, [69].
• —— On misleading titles, [162].
• Rœdereri (J. G.) Opuscula Medica, [118].
• Roman and Greek names, [100].
• Roy's (Mr.) plan for pasting down British Museum Catalogue, [71].
• Rules, battle of the, [25]-[48].
• —— for a small library, [235]-[46].
• —— Good catalogues made before they were enunciated, [13].
• Rye (W. B.) in favour of printing the British Museum Catalogue, [51].
• Saints under their Christian names, [91].
• —— Rules for a small library, [236].
• Scott's (Sir Walter) pseudonyms, [147].
• Scudder's catalogue of scientific serials, [214]-[15].
• Serials, treatment of, [211].
• Size-notation, [168]-[78].
• —— Measurements, [172].
• —— Cambridge system, [173].
• —— Bodleian plan, [177].
• —— Committee of the Library Association on, [176].
• —— Rules for a small library, [240].
• Smithsonian Institution scheme for stereotyping catalogue titles, [65].
• Sovereigns, saints, and friars to be registered under their Christian names, [91].
• —— British Museum rule, [91].
• —— Cambridge rule, [92].
• —— Cutter's rule, [92].
• —— Library Association rule, [92].
• —— Rules for a small library, [236].
• Stanhope (Earl) on the cataloguing of anonymous works, [138].
• Stereotyping catalogue titles, Jewett's scheme, [65].
• Stevens (Henry), his scheme of photo-bibliography, [66].
• Stevens (Henry), Catalogue of the American books in the British Museum, [43].
• Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William), his adoption of Jewett's suggestion for size-notation, [172].
• Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, Index Catalogue of the Library of, [18].
• Thompson's (Mr. Maunde) paper on the arrangement and preservation of manuscripts, [228].
• Title, treatment of the, short or long, [153]-[63].
• —— Rules for a small library, [238].
• Title-page, how to treat a, [74].
• —— of rare books, reduced photographs of, [68].
• —— Second, [161].
• Titles, misleading, [102], [161].
• Tomlinson (C.) on the cataloguing of anonymous works, [141].
• Tracts not to be distinguished from books, [209].
• —— Rules for a small library, [242].
• Transactions, cataloguing of, [217].
• —— Extracts from, [210].
• —— Treatment of, [104].
• —— and Journals, whether they should be catalogued separately or together, [215].
• Translations, position of, in list of author's works, [206].
• Trials, reports of, [122].
• —— British Museum rule, [122].
• —— Cutter's rule, [122].
• —— Rules for a small library, [237].
• Trilleri Opuscula, [118].
• Type, varieties of, in a catalogue, [64].
• Voltaire or Arouet, the disputed question of arrangement, [85].
• Voyages, reports of, [127].
• —— under the name of the vessel, [128].
• —— Rules for a small library, [237].
• Warner's Catalogue of Dulwich MSS., [233].
• Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, [193].
• Watts (Thomas), one of Committee for British Museum Rules, [26].
• Wheatley's (B. R.) paper on the authorship of Academical dissertations, [105].
• —— Plan for keeping a catalogue in print for years, [57].
• —— Views on size-notation, [176].
• Women, married, their change of name, [98].
• —— Rules for a small library, [236].
• Wrapper, catalogue title not to be taken from, [74].
• Wrottesley (Lord) on the cataloguing of anonymous works, [142].

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Dublin Review, October 1846, p. 7.

[2] Dublin Review, October 1846, p. 12.

[3] Dublin Review, October 1846, p. 6.