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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes library. As it is a date-wise record of the collections and arranged accordingly to the serial
number of the items, it cannot serve as a finding tool for documents available in the library from
the point of view of author, title or subject. To locate or find out a particular item, the entire
accession register has to be searched serially, which is a very time consuming operation. One
needs to know the accession number of an item to search in the accession register. The accession
register is used to find out every bit of information on an item, which is not available in any
other record. It is also a permanent record of the library and fulfils the function of a stock
register.

Notes The periodicals holdings register which gives detailed information of the volumes
of journal titles available in bound or unbound form, is another useful finding tool in a
library. Quite often the information in this register is transferred to the library catalogue.
But a separate register is also maintained. This register cannot serve as a library catalogue
as it is confined to periodicals only.
Thus, a library catalogue is a unique and distinct tool to fulfil some of the most important
functions in using a collection of a library. It helps to locate a document even if it is demanded
either by author, or title or subject of the book.
8.6.2 Bibliographies

A library catalogue and a bibliography are distinct from each other as they serve different
purposes. A bibliography is an organized list of documents compiled for some purpose. The
purpose is usually to bring to the notice of the reader an exhaustive or select list of documents
relevant to the pursuit of his enquiry or study. A bibliography may he of books such as Cumulative
Book Index, or journal articles such as Indian Education Index (1947-1978) edited by K.G. Tyagi,
1980 or of doctoral theses and dissertations such as Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in
India complied by Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi. The bibliography may be of
documents published in a language such as Hindi Grantha Kosha 1976-1980 and 1981-1985, of
publications of a country such as Indian National Bibliography. Details of varieties of
bibliographies have been given in the Course BLIS-05. The bibliography may be on a particular
subject or documents pertaining to a specific period of time, in one or more languages.
A bibliography may either be comprehensive in its scope and coverage or selective.
These bibliographies cater to all the approaches of readers such as author, subject, and title and
also may be annotated. Such bibliographies are generally prepared either by scholars or by
technically qualified library staff. They may be prepared by individual libraries at local level to
assist their users. In such cases, they comprise select list of items, which are of specific interest to
the users. Bibliographies are expected to be authentic and are mostly used as reference tools in
literature search. Preparation of bibliographies calls for scholarship and critical faculties of
assessment and evaluation of documents, on the part of their compilers. The basic difference
between a bibliography and a library catalogue is that a bibliography tells us what publication
have been published but does not tell us where (in which library) these publications will be
available for reading.

Self Assessment

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11. A number of ………………..are created in a library for its collections to serve different
purposes.

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