Filing Rules for the Arrangement of the Dictionary Catalog of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

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Page 5 - The arrangement . of title-entries is first by the heading words; if they are the same, then by the next word; if that is the same, by the next; and so on. Every word, articles and prepositions included, is to be regarded; but not a transposed article.
Page 5 - Arrange titles beginning with numeral figures (not expressing the number of the work in a series, § 330) as if the figures were written out in the language of the rest of the title.
Page 8 - Saint b) Disregard the abbreviations K., KK, I., R., etc. (standing for Kaiserlich, Koniglich, Imperiale, Reale, etc.) at the beginning of names of foreign learned academies, societies, etc., and arrange by the word following the abbreviation. The words for which these abbreviations stand are not familiarly known or spoken as part of the name. In the names of English societies, Imperial and Royal are not to be disregarded.
Page 12 - Headings like Charles, George", Henry, when very numerous, must be divided into classes, in this order: Saints, Popes, Emperors, Kings, Princes and Noblemen, others. The Saints are subarranged by their usual appellatives, the Popes by their number, Sovereigns and Sovereign princes in alphabetical order of countries, and under countries numerically. Other persons are subarranged by their usual appellatives, neglecting the prepositions.1 Ex.
Page 17 - Arrange a translation alphabetically by its own title, not behind the original.
Page 7 - Arrange elisions as they are printed and not as if spelled in full. Treat as one word the contraction of two words resulting from an elision. Exception: Foreign articles and prepositions with a final vowel elided are better treated as separate words and not as contractions . Cap'n Eri Capo d'anno De I...
Page 28 - Subject Arrangement 25. Arrange entries of the same subject heading alphabetically by the first word (not an article) on the line below the subject, ie the main entry heading for the book.
Page 11 - Arrange the name of a firm in which forenames or initials follow the first name in its alphabetical place among the personal names. "Arrange a firm name without forename, a compound firm name, or a phrase firm name, alphabetically with the titles and other headings following the same name as surname.
Page 11 - As they are; French political portraits, by * *'* ; translated from the French by Winifred Katzin.
Page 11 - Capt., etc. (f) Arrange the name of a firm in which forenames or initials follow the first surname, in its alphabetical place with personal names. But arrange a firm name without forenames alphabetically with titles and not with personal names.

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