ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards

American Library Association. Subcommittee on the ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards

American Library Association, 1968 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 260 pages

A comprehensive guide to filing catalogue cards using the basic order of alphabetical, word-by-word filing. The complete edition, recommended for academic, special and large public libraries, covers in detail the filing of specialized and foreign materials. Examples and explanatory notes on filing principles and related cataloguing rules are included.

Contents

• Variant forms Rules 1012: 10
• 17: 89
• Author entry arrangement Rules 2627: 113
• Rule 28: 148
• Rule 31: 155
• Subject arrangement: 174
• Title entry arrangement: 185
• Series entry arrangement: 194
• Cross reference arrangement: 199
• Numerical and chronological arrangement: 205
• Nonbook material arrangement: 218
• Initial articles to be disregarded in filing: 233
• Glossary: 237
• Bibliography: 240
• 29: 241
• Index: 248

Bibliographic information

• Title: ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards
• Author: American Library Association. Subcommittee on the ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards
• Editor: Pauline Augusta Seely
• Edition: 2, abridged
• Publisher: American Library Association, 1968
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Sep 4, 2008
• ISBN: 083890002X, 9780838900024
• Length: 260 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Alphabets & Writing Systems; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Cataloging & Classification