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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes the name of the author. In other words, a name catalogue is a mixed type of catalogue which
combines the author and subject entries (the subject entries representing the author as a subject)
into one alphabetical sequence. In this type of catalogue, biographies and other critical studies
of an author are arranged along with his original works. The author entries include:

Corporate authors, both as an author as well as a subject
Name series
Place name forming part of an author heading
The following examples, exemplify these points:
Person as an Author

Nehru, Jawaharlal: Discovery of India
Nehru, Jawaharlal: Glimpses of World History
Nehru, Jawaharlal: Towards Freedom: Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Persons as Subject

Jawaharlal Nehru, a Political Biography by F. Moraces
Jawaharlal Nehru: a Biography by S. Gopal
Nehru: the Making of a Nation by M. J. Akbar
Name Series

Oxford historical series
Madras University Sir C.P. Ramaswami Ayer
Endowment Lecture Series
Place Name

Bombay University
Calcutta University
Name catalogue serves as an author catalogue and also as a subject catalogue as far as the author
as a subject is concerned. Any reader interested on the works by or on an author may find this
type of catalogue very useful to find specific material of his interest. In this type of catalogue,
one can find the works of Rabindranath Tagore as well as works on him arranged in a single
alphabetical order under Tagore.
Name catalogue seems to be almost confined to Great Britain. Such a catalogue, outside Great
Britain appears to be rare. The Catalogue of the British Museum Library (now the British Library)
is near name catalogue which includes references from all names that occur in titles.

9.6.3 Title Catalogue

In a title catalogue, the titles of documents occupy at the leading section of entries, which are
arranged in an alphabetical order. Queries of readers who remember only the exact title of the
book can be answered with the help of a title catalogue. However, it is noticed that many of the
readers do not spell out a title exactly the way it appears on the title page, particularly
non-fiction titles. To fulfil title approach of readers, entries can he selectively provided in
catalogues of public libraries for fiction and for those that are well-known by their titles.

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