ALA Rules for Filing Catalog CardsThis work is a guide to filing catalogue cards using the basic order of alphabetical, word-by-word filing. |
Contents
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Basic Rules Rules 14 | 2 |
2 Modified letters | 3 |
4 Articles | 4 |
Abbreviated forms Rules 59 | 5 |
6 Abbreviations | 7 |
7 Elisions possessives etc | 9 |
9 Numerals | 10 |
23 Corporate name entries beginning with a surname | 30 |
25 Given name entries | 31 |
Author entry arrangement Rules 2627 | 33 |
26 General arrangement under author | 34 |
27 Organized author arrangement | 40 |
28 Corporate entry arrangement | 43 |
Anonymous classic entry arrangement Rules 2930 | 45 |
30 Other anonymous classics and sacred books | 48 |
Variant Forms Rules 1012 | 13 |
10 Words spelled in different ways | 14 |
11 Words written in different ways | 15 |
12 Dialect colloquial humorous forms | 18 |
13 Compound proper names | 19 |
15 Oriental names | 21 |
16 American Indian names | 23 |
19 Order of entries under same wordGeneral rules | 25 |
Personal name entry arrangement Rules 2025 | 26 |
21 Compound surname entries | 29 |
31 Place arrangement | 49 |
32 Subject arrangement | 54 |
33 Title entry arrangement | 58 |
34 Series entry arrangement | 62 |
35 Cross reference arrangement | 64 |
36 Numerical and chronological arrangement | 66 |
37 Nonbook material arrangement | 72 |
Initial articles to be disregarded in filing | 79 |
Index | 81 |
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alphabetical place analytic and/or added entries Anglo-American Cataloging Rules arranged alphabetically author entries author-title added entries Beethoven Bible California Charles chronological Color Comprehensive examples COOKERY corporate name designation Die Fledermaus disregarding punctuation Doubtful plays edition English entries beginning entry arrangement Rules Epistle of Barnabas Examples for Rule Filing position Fledermaus following order forenames George Herbert Palmer given name Hamlet hyphen imprint dates initial articles interfiled John kinds of entries La traviata Lincoln Lucrece Ludwig main and/or added name entries National Research Council numeral Odyssey of Homer Order of entries Paul Elmer personal name Phonodisc prefix proper names Selections series entries Shakespeare Smith Sonata Sonnets spelled subarranged alphabetically subheading subject headings subject subdivisions subtitles surname entries Talmud title added entries title main entries title page titles U. S. 63d Congress U. S. Army Air U. S. Congress U. S. Constitution uniform title United Nations William William Shakespeare word by word York
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Page 1 - ... (1) Single surname entries, arranged alphabetically by forenames. (2) All other entries, arranged alphabetically word by word, disregarding kind of entry, form of heading, and punctuation. B. Arrange subject entries under a personal or corporate name immediately after the author entries for the same name. C. Interfile title added entries and subject entries that are identical and subarrange alphabetically by their main entries.
Page iv - Therefore, it was decided that the basic order should be straight alphabetical, disregarding punctuation, with just a few exceptions, the major one being that personal surname entries are arranged before other entries beginning with the same word or combination of words.
Page 1 - The basic principle is that filing should be straightforward, item by item through the entry, not disregarding or transposing any of the elements, nor mentally inserting designations.