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Unit 9: Technical Section

Types Notes

Traditionally, there are the following types of catalog:
Author card: a formal catalogue, sorted alphabetically according to the authors’ or editors’
names of the entries.
Title catalog: a formal catalogue, sorted alphabetically according to the title of the entries.
Dictionary catalog: a catalogue in which all entries (author, title, subject, series) are interfiled
in a single alphabetical order. This was the primary form of card catalog in North Ameri-
can libraries just prior to the introduction of the computer-based catalog.
Keyword catalogue: a subject catalog, sorted alphabetically according to some system of
keywords.
Mixed alphabetic catalogue forms: sometimes, one finds a mixed author / title, or an
author/title/keyword catalogue.
Systematic catalog: a subject catalogue, sorted according to some systematic subdivision of
subjects. Also called a Classified catalogue.
Shelf list catalogue: a formal catalogue with entries sorted in the same order as biblio-
graphic items are shelved. This catalog may also serve as the primary inventory for the
library.

Task Make a chart – Types of catalogue card.

History
Library catalogue originated as manuscript lists, arranged by format or in a rough alphabetical
arrangement by author. Printed catalogs, sometimes called dictionary catalogue enabled scholars
outside a library to gain an idea of its contents. These would sometimes be interleaved with blank
leaves on which additions could be recorded, or bound as guard books in which slips of paper
were bound in for new entries. Slips could also be kept loose in cardboard or tin boxes, stored on
shelves. The first card catalogue appeared in the nineteenth century, enabling much more flexibility,
and towards the end of the twentieth century the OPAC was developed.
Callimachus is considered the first bibliographer and is the one that organized the library
by authors and subjects.

Did u know? The Pinakes was the first ever library catalogue Variations on this system
were used in libraries until the late 1800s when Melvil Dewey developed the
Dewey Decimal Classification in 1876, which is still in use today.
Library catalogues are introduced in the House of Wisdom and other medieval Islamic
libraries where books are organized into specific genres and categories.
Nomenclature of Leiden University Library appears the first printed catalogue of an insti-
tutional library.
Thomas Hyde’s catalogue for the Bodleian Library.

9.3 Cataloguing Rules

Cataloguing rules have been defined to allow for consistent cataloguing of various library materials
across several persons of a cataloguing team and across time. Users can use them to clarify how to
find an entry and how to interpret the data in an entry. Cataloguing rules prescribe which
information from a bibliographic item is included in the entry; how this information is presented
on a catalogue card or in a cataloguing record; how the entries should be sorted in the catalogue.

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