It will be clear that, in view of the impossibility of printing the Anglo-American Code in this chapter, it will be futile to give an alternative Code in a manual which deals with the general activities of the profession. A brief Code did appear in the last edition, which was practical and simple, and reference may be made to that, but it is strongly to be suggested that all future catalogues should be accommodated to the A.-A. Code in order that uniform methods of entry may be perfected, catalogues may become more generally understandable, and a formidable obstacle to co-operative cataloguing be removed.
[10] Cataloguing Rules: Author and Title Entries. Compiled by Committees of the American Library Association and the Library Association. English edition, 1908. (Out of print, 1919.)
264. Bulletins.
264. Bulletins.—Since about 1894 a number of libraries have issued periodical magazines, or bulletins, in which are printed lists of new books, reading lists on special subjects, notes on the work of the libraries, and other matter likely to be of use and interest to library readers. The first use of such a magazine is to supply readers with a regular supplementary catalogue of all book additions; a second purpose is to publish notifications of new rules or alterations in the working of the library; and a third may be to issue information about the work accomplished by the library. The greatest amount of space, therefore, should be allotted to the description of new books, and annotations should be supplied liberally to the entries which require them. The magazine has the advantage over ordinary supplementary catalogues in that it is issued regularly and frequently; and it has a valuable purpose in supplying printed entries by means of which the card or sheaf catalogue can be kept up-to-date effectively. Copies of the magazine can be printed on thin paper (preferably bank paper) on one side only, and the entries can be cut out and mounted on cards or slips and inserted in the standard catalogue of the library, whatever form it may take. Emphasis may be laid upon the special catalogues or reading lists which can conveniently be published by this means. A special catalogue is usually a classified list of entries on the subject chosen in ordinary catalogue form, of which several good examples appear in the Norwich Readers’ Guide. A reading list has a directive purpose; it is in a much freer form as a rule, selects the best books on the subject, and indicates the order in which they may be read most profitably, with qualitative and elucidatory notes. Examples of such lists appear in several American library bulletins, and examples readily accessible are those in the Croydon Reader’s Index, a sample from one of which is subjoined:
DARWIN AND THE EVOLUTION THEORY
PART 1. INTRODUCTORY COURSE.
| For those who are unable to read very widely in the theory the following are suggested,in the order given, as sufficient for giving an accurate and fairly complete view of the question. | |
| Saleeby’s “Organic Evolution,” a simple but interesting intro. to thesubject | C[11] 575 |
| Romanes’s “Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution” is also a briefstatement of the primary factors of the theory | CST 575 |
| Clodd’s “Story of Creation” is a popular but more extensive study of thewhole question of evolution | CST 575 |
| Wallace’s “Darwinism” should be read as a direct intro. to Darwin’sown works. Embraces researches made between 1872 and 1889, andanswers objections; it is popular in method | CST 575 |
| Darwin’s “Origin of Species” is the epoch-making work in which, in1859, he first fully expounded his theory of the mutability ofspecies | CST 575 |
| His “Descent of Man,” 1871, is an account of further experiments, andmore careful in style | CT 575 |
| Huxley’s “Man’s Place in Nature” may be read as a suppl. to Darwin, asthe work of a brilliant independent critic | CST 573 |
| Romanes’s “Darwin and after Darwin” carries on the theory to 1890.3 v. | C 575 |
| Haeckel’s “Evolution of Man” contains the view of the theory ofthe first of German biologists. Principally a study of embryology.2 v. | C 575 |
| Weissmann’s “The Evolution Theory” is the latest re-statement ofthe whole subject (1904). Is popular, and contains a study of theauthor’s germ theory. 2 v. | C 572 |
| If the reader is unable to spare time for reading all the above, Romanes’s “ScientificEvidences” and Wallace’s “Darwinism” are perhaps the most useful to the beginner. | |
PART 2. A MORE COMPLETE COURSE.
BIOGRAPHY.
| See Francis Darwin’s “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.” 3 v.,1887 | CS B |
| The official life, by his son; it contains an autobiographical c., and is “at once abiography, an autobiography, and the history of a great idea.” | |
| And its complement, Darwin’s “More Letters.” 2 v. | CST 575 |
| A record of his work, in hitherto unpublished letters. V. 1 deals almost entirelywith evolution. | |
| See also the popular biographies: | |
| Bettany’s “Life of Charles Darwin” in the “Great Writers” ser. | C B |
| And Grant Allen’s “Charles Darwin” in the “English Worthies” ser. | CST B |
| Also “Memorial Notices: Reprinted from ‘Nature,’” 1882 | CSTR B |
| Appreciations and criticisms of his work in geology, botany, zoology, psychology,and other branches of thought, by Huxley, Romanes, Geikie, and Dyer. | |