This book, first published in 1933, shows the more common difficulties in constructing library entries for author single-entries with references, and author-entries with added entries. These basic principles of cataloguing practice offer valuable advice to the cataloguer of books.
Part
1. Author Single-Entry
1. Introductory: Qualifications and
Essentials
2. Cataloguing Conventions
3. The Arrangement of Material
4.
References
5. Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature
6. Titles, Prefixes and
Compound Names
7. The Series-Entry
8. Latin and Greek Authors
9. The Bible
and Biblical Literature
10. Periodical Literature Part
2. Subject-Entry
11.
Standard Forms of Catalogues
12. Short Catalogue-Entries
13. Joint-Authors
14. Cataloguing Fiction
15. Names and Headings
16. Anonymous Works
17.
Various Forms of Names
18. Series-Entries
19. Classical Authors, the Bible,
Periodicals
20. Analytical Entries
21. Books with Lengthy and Obscure Titles
22. The Cataloguing of Music
23. Annotations, Catalogues for Children
24.
Alphabetical Arrangement Part
3. Book-Indexing
25. Book-Indexing
J. Henry Quinn and H.W. Acomb
