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THIS book is in several respects favourably distinguished from others of its class that have recently seen the light. The animosities of the library world are not imported into its pages, and in several ways the writer deprecates the subordination of practical common sense to a display of learning. He does not, for instance, condemn the unfortunate reader in search of the works of George Sand to remember that her real name was Dudevant, and to look under that heading. The book is avowedly not designed for workers in a learned institution, but is most admirably adapted for those engaged in cataloguing the contents of an ordinary library. Mr. Quinn's rules are set forth with singular clearness, and endowed with a wise elasticity. He is on the whole in favour of the “dictionary” system, wherein each book may be found, under a single alphabetical arrangement, under its title, the name of its author, and the particular portion of human knowledge with which it deals, but he also gives an adequate account of the system of “classified catalogues.” An appendix gives most valuable help to the librarian in his dealings with the printer of his catalogue, and gives completeness to a most valuable little work.
A Manual of Library Cataloguing.
By J. Henry Quinn, Librarian Chelsea Public Libraries. Pp. 164. (London: Library Supply Company, 1899.)
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A Manual of Library Cataloguing. Nature 60, 124 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060124b0
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