• Catalogs, card - And other anachronisms

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-62

  Coyle, Karen ^a  

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EID: 13344262676     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. C.A. Cutter "Library Catalogues" Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education. Public libraries of the United States of America, their History, Condition and Management 1876 Government Printing Office Washington 526
2. Wiegand Wayne A. "Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey" 1996 American Library Association Chicago 54
3. There was some experimentation with catalogs in classified order, but these proved difficult for the public to use and often required alphabetical indexes to make them accessible (see Cutter, C. A., op cit., pp. 529-532).
4. The rise of alphabetical or dictionary catalogs coincided with the introduction of the Dewey Decimal Classification, which created a classified order for the books on the shelves, supported by an alphabetical index to the classification for public access (see Dewey, Melvil. A Classification and Subject Index, For Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library, Amherst, Mass, 1876).
5. "Mrs. Durant's part in these concluding volumes has been so substantial that our names must be united on the title page." Durant, Will and Durant, Ariel, The Age of Reason Begins (p. viii), New York, Simon and Schuster, 1961.