Handbook of Card Distribution, Issue 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - Cataloging |
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abbreviations added entries American Library Association analyticals author and title Biography Bulletin Card Distribution Section cards are desired cards as currently cards desired cards for specific cards or proof cards wanted cent Centers of population classes copies copyright date copyrighted books cost current accessions Cyclopedias date of publication deposit depository library edition entry cards extra charges forenames given Handbook history and description including Library science indicate the number Ja-My L. C. cards left column Librarian Library of Congress mailed daily main divisions named in left number of cards number or formula order is received ordering cards orders by author orders by serial orders for cards period named PRICES OF CARDS printed cards printed catalogue cards printed form proof sheets Public Library rebate recatalogued sample catalogue scope sent serial number specific books standing order subject headings subscribers SUBSCRIPTION TO CARDS titles held typewriting United States Heraldry York edition
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Page 31 - SEC. 4956. N'o person shall be entitled to a copyright unless he shall, on or before the day of publication in this or any foreign country...
Page 3 - Now it is receiving this urgent appeal: To permit other libraries to order extra copies of the cards which will cover books that they are acquiring ; just as they are permitted to secure extra copies of the card indexes of the Agricultural Department, or, indeed, of any Government publication, paying the cost plus 10 per cent.
Page 2 - The American Library Association (not as a scheme for profit, since it is not a commercial body, but merely as a measure of professional cooperation) has issued cards indexing certain scientific serials, and even cards cataloguing certain current books. But the association has no library nor any corps of expert cataloguers. For the material to be catalogued it had to depend upon voluntary gift or loan from the publishers. The cards issued did not cover enough titles to interest a large library; they...
Page 1 - Now, the cost of getting any particular book into the card catalogue is far greater than the public has any notion of. There are various elements of cost; there is the work of the cataloguer, who is an expert; then there is the work of the transcriber, if you multiply copies of the card by transcription or by typewriter. If you print there is the cost of composition and presswork. The stock would cost the same whether you transcribe or print. But the two most costly factors are the work of the cataloguer,...
Page 2 - ... it. It has already the largest collection of books on the Western Hemisphere; it is increasing more rapidly than any other single collection. It receives without cost two copies of every book entered for copyright in the United States. It receives these on or before the date of publication, and thus in advance of any other library. It receives an enormous mass of material through exchange. And it is buying a...
Page 2 - It is reclassifying and recataloguing its existing collection (excluding duplicates, over 700,000 books and pamphlets), and is printing these results also on cards. These cards are of the standard form, size, type, and method of entry. The Library has been in consultation for over a year past with a committee of the American Library Association — a committee of experts — in order to arrive at standards, and we have now arrived at what might be called a standard in all these respects. The card...
Page 1 - The cards that libraries have used were in the first instance written ; then they were typewritten, and in recent years they have in some libraries come to be printed. Printing is possible, of course, only for the larger libraries, which are handling a large number of books and making elaborate catalogues ; the New York Public Library...
Page 1 - ... copies of the card by transcription or by typewriter. If you print, there is the cost of composition and presswork. The stock would cost the same whether you transcribe or print. But the two most costly factors are the work of the cataloguer, the expert, and the work of the compositor or transcriber. It has been estimated that on the average the total cost of getting a single book into a library catalogue is from 25 to 35 cents. Not a single volume, of course. A book may be in a hundred volumes...
Page 42 - New York Public Library, New York, NY New York State Library, Albany, NY Pennsylvania University Library, Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, Pa. St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Mo. Texas University Library, Austin, Tex. Wisconsin State Historical Library, Madison...
Page 3 - American instinct and habit revolt against multiplication of brain effort and outlay where a multiplication of results can be achieved by machine. This appears to be a case where it may — not every result, but results so great as to effect a prodigious saving to the libraries of this country. The Library of Congress can not ignore the opportunity and the appeal.