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Unit 5: Alerting and Bibliographic Services

(ii) Incunabula Bibliography: This type of bibliography lists the early printed Notes
material up to 15th century. It was considered a cradle period of printing and
the systematic order in arranging various parts of the book was not followed.

Example: Proctor Robert: An index to the early printed books in the British Museum
from the invention of printing to the year 1300 with notes of those in the Bodleian library.
Konard Burger’s index, London 1960.
(iii) Bibliography of anonymous and pseudonymous works: These types of
bibliographies are arranged alphabetically by title with notes of author, details
of publication and annotations and notes about authority for the ascription.
They are also provided with an index of initials and pseudonyms. Sometimes
the titles are arranged alphabetically with names of the authors in square
brackets and notes about the authority for the attribution at the end.

Example: Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous literature.
(iv) Trade bibliographies: These types of bibliographies are brought out by large
publishing firms engaged in book production or trade. The books available
for sale or purchase are listed therein.

Example: Whitakers cumulative book list, London, Whitaker British Book in print etc.
(v) National bibliography: It is a comprehensive, almost complete record of both
written and printed output in a given country, furnishing description and
supplying verification which cannot found in the less complete bibliographies.
So in short a national bibliography list all documents published in a given
country.
The national bibliography is compiled on the basis of the materials received
by the National Libraries under the copyright act as promulgated in various
countries. A national bibliography is considered a national heritage and its
purpose is intellectual not commercial (selling). It is useful for the researcher
and the posterity. Example: Indian National Bibliography, Kolkata, Central
Reference Library, British National Bibliography, London
(b) Secondary Bibliography: Secondary bibliographies are “those in which material
registered elsewhere is rearranged for the convenience of research”. In these
documents already recorded in primary bibliographies are selected, analyzed, and
rearranged either by subject, author, period or typography.
(i) Subject Bibliography: A subject bibliography is a comprehensive list of all
books, periodicals articles, pamphlets and other analytical materials that have
appeared on that subject, such a bibliography is international in scope since it
covers everything that has been appeared on the subject in different languages
and in different countries of the world. Example: Education Abstract, 1949 to
date, Paris, UNESCO.

(ii) Author Bibliography: An author bibliography is the list of writing by an
author together with the works on him by others.

Example: Mahatma Gandhi: A descriptive bibliography, compiled by Dr. J. S. Sharma,
Delhi, S. Chand, 1955.

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