299. Cataloguer’s Reference Books
299. Cataloguer’s Reference Books:
New York State Library. Selections of Cataloguer’s Reference Books in New York State Library, 1903.
See also Brown’s Library Classification and Cataloguing and Stewart’s Sheaf Catalogue.
For articles, see Cannons: I, Cataloguing.
CHAPTER XX
FILING AND INDEXING
300. General.
300. General.—Although the library invented the card index, it may be confessed that in this country the library has not yet realized the possibilities of its own invention, even if it is convinced of its complete desirability. We make no question, however, of the fact that such methods as card-indexing and its derivative, vertical filing, become more necessary every day if the librarian is to handle with any degree of success the multiplicity of documents, prints, papers and other disparate matter which form so important a part of the stock of a really living library. Since the publication of the second edition of this Manual the whole matter has made such advances that a complete reversal of many of the statements and recommendations made in it is necessary. The general indexing and filing problems before the librarian are these: