Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students and researchers in library science, information science, and archival science
- Practitioners engaged in cataloging, metadata, and information organization
- Historical readers interested in the history of cataloging and modern library history
- Researchers who need to trace the theoretical origins of cataloging rules
Not a good fit for
- Frontline staff seeking a contemporary hands-on cataloging manual
- Beginners without a library science background who want a quick introduction to cataloging
- Readers with limited English reading ability who are unfamiliar with professional terminology
Reading tips
- Read the introduction and general rules first to grasp the overall framework of the dictionary catalogue, then move on to the specific rules.
- Read alongside modern cataloging rules and note which principles have been inherited and which have been superseded.
- Prepare a glossary and mark core concepts such as author entry, reference, and uniform heading as you go.
- You may read closely the rules for one type of entry and consult the rest as needed rather than reading every rule straight through.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Charles A. Cutter (1837–1903) was an American librarian. He had a profound influence on library cataloging, and his representative work, Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue, systematically sets out the principles and methods for compiling a dictionary catalogue. Cutter devised the Cutter classification and the author number: the former offered a workable system for classifying books, while the latter served to distinguish different works under the same class on the shelves and remains an important tool for library shelving today. Public information about his life is limited, and this library holds only one of his works; yet this rule-based book shows that he valued standardization and consistency in cataloging practice, seeking to make catalogues easy both for librarians to use and for readers to search. His methods were widely adopted by later libraries and became one of the important foundations of modern cataloging systems.
