This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...than 1,000 duplicates. Written and typewritten cards alike may be duplicated with some form of gelatine machine, some of which give fairly good results. When the various cards of a catalogue are produced in different ways, the result is lack of uniformity, to which some librarians object. Some cataloguers, whose ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...than 1,000 duplicates. Written and typewritten cards alike may be duplicated with some form of gelatine machine, some of which give fairly good results. When the various cards of a catalogue are produced in different ways, the result is lack of uniformity, to which some librarians object. Some cataloguers, whose libraries cannot go to the expense of printing all their cards uniformly, are having all typewritten or all written in the same style of library hand to secure uniformity. Lack of uniformity, however, provided all the cards are equally legible, docs not interfere with the usefulness of the catalogue, and the extra labor expended upon making them uniform is better employed in other ways. The introduction of the open-shelf system has had some important bearings on the arrangement and use of catalogues. If all the books in such an arrangement were to remain permanently shelved, they would theoretically serve as their own catalogue, except for cross reference, which could well be introduced on dummies. But practically a catalogue is still needed. The case is similar to that of the alphabetical arrangement of articles in an encyclopedia, which, it was formerly thought, made an index unnecessary. The material in each article, however, especially when it is at all comprehensive, requires indexing in itself, and hence all good encyclopedias now include an index volume, so that the alphabetical arrangement of the articles themselves is no longer absolutely necessary, and has even been given up in one or two indexed works of reference, although retained in most of them. A cyclopedia with articles arranged alphabetically or in some classified order may be compared to an open-shelf library; one without orderly arrangement of any kind, to a closed-shelf library, ..
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