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Information Storage and Retrieval

Notes Principles (CCP) in Paris. The latest attempt to describe a library catalogue’s goals and functions
was made in 1998 with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) which defines
four user tasks: find, identify, select, and obtain.

Catalogue Card

Main Entry e.g.,
Arif, Abdul Majid.
Political structure in a changing Pakistani
villages/by Abdul Majid and Basharat Hafeez
Andaleeb.—2nd ed.—Lahore : ABC Press, 1985.
xvi, 367p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 969-8612-02-8 (hbk.)

Types

Traditionally, there are the following types of catalogue:
Author card: a formal catalogue, sorted alphabetically according to the authors’ or editors’ names
of the entries.
Title catalogue: a formal catalogue, sorted alphabetically according to the title of the entries.
Dictionary catalogue: a catalogue in which all entries (author, title, subject, series) are interfiled in a
single alphabetical order. This was the primary form of card catalogue in North American libraries
just prior to the introduction of the computer-based catalogue.
Keyword catalogue: a subject catalogue, 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 catalogue: 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 bibliographic items
are shelved. This catalogue may also serve as the primary inventory for the library.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
1. 1960/61 cutter’s objectives were revised by Lubetzky and the Conference on Cataloguing
Principles (CCP) in Paris.
2. Author Card: a formal catalogue, sorted alphabetically according to the title of the entries.
3. Keyword catalogue: a subject catalogue, sorted alphabetically according to some system of
keywords.
4. Shelf list catalogue is also called a classified catalogue.

5. A library catalogue is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library and group of
libraries.

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