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Information Storage and Retrieval

Notes Cataloguing Terms

Main entry – generally refers to the first author named on the item. Additional authors are added as
“added entries.” In cases where no clear author is named, the title of the work is considered the main
entry.

Self Assessment

Multiple Choice Questions:
6. In ...... the pinakes was the first ever library catalogue.
(a) 225 BC (b) 245 BC
(c) 265 BC (d) 285 BC
7. In ...... Thomas Hyde’s catalogue for the Bodleian library.
(a) 1574 (b) 1584
(c) 1664 (d) 1674
8. Main entry–generally refers to the ...... author named on the item.
(a) First (b) Second
(c) Third (d) Fourth

6.3 Summary

• A library catalogue (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a
library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations.
• Charles Ammi Cutter made the first explicit statement regarding the objectives of a biblio-
graphic system in his Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue in 1876.
• Printed catalogues, sometimes called dictionary catalogues enabled scholars outside a library
to gain an idea of its contents.
• Cataloguing rules have been defined to allow for consistent cataloguing of various library
materials across several persons of a cataloguing team and across time.

6.4 Keywords

Systematic Catalogue : A subject catalogue, sorted according to some systematic subdivision of
subjects. Also called a Classified catalogue.
Cataloguing Rules : Users can use them to clarify how to find an entry and how to interpret
the data in the entry.

6.5 Review Questions

1. Define library catalogue.
2. Write the cataloguing rules.
3. Explain history of library catalogue.
4. Name the various types of catalogue.

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