Joint-Authors.
Joint-Authors. Collations. Synonymous Subject-Headings.
Participants in a Correspondence. References. Man and Wife
as Joint-Authors.
When a book is written by two authors, the entry is given under the
first-named on the title-page. The following is an illustration of the
method of treatment in such a case, and in order to make the matter
clear, the title-page is set out in full as before. The whole title
is printed in capital letters, and has no other punctuation than that
shown.
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| ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES |
| OF ECONOMICS |
| |
| TOGETHER WITH A SHORT SKETCH |
| OF ECONOMIC HISTORY |
| |
| BY |
| RICHARD T. ELY, Ph. D., LL. D. |
| PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY |
| OF WISCONSIN |
| AND |
| GEORGE RAY WICKER, Ph. D. |
| ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS IN DARTMOUTH COLLEGE |
| |
| NEW YORK |
| THE MACMILLAN COMPANY |
| LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. |
| 1910 |
| ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
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Upon the lines already laid down, the main-entry
becomes
ELY, Richard T., and George Ray WICKER.
Elementary principles of economics; together
with a short sketch of economic history. _New
York_, Macmillan Co., 1910. pp. xii., 388
Frequently the names of the authors are seen rendered in this fashion
ELY, Richard T., and WICKER, George Ray
While it is essential and unavoidable that the name of the first author
should be turned about to get his surname as the leading word, yet
there is no object in twisting about the second author's name in like
manner, as it is not so required, therefore the ordinary reading of the
name is better and simpler, as given in the first entry.
Unless needed to distinguish between different authors of the same
name, the academical degrees are omitted, as well as any statement
concerning the professorships held by these authors, although the fact
that they hold such offices goes to prove their qualifications for
dealing with this subject. If it were desired to direct attention to
this, it could be done by means of a note or annotation to the entry,
after this manner
The first author is Prof. of Pol. Econ., Wisconsin Univ., and
the second Asst. Prof. of Economics, Dartmouth Coll.
The share of the second author in the book needs to be recognised, and
this is accomplished by means of a reference, as
WICKER, George Ray (_Joint-Author._) _See_ Ely,
Richard T.
If this writer happens to be the sole author of another work, then the
form of reference is made to read
WICKER, George Ray.
-- (_Joint-Author_). _See also_ Ely, Richard T.
To give the reference in this form may seem to be a contradiction of
the previous statement that the second author's name need not be turned
about, but in this case it is necessary to point directly to the name
Ely under which the entry is found.
An alternative style for both the above references so far as the use of
capitals and punctuation is concerned is
WICKER, Geo. Ray (_joint-author_) _see_ ELY,
Richard T.
WICKER, Geo. Ray.
-- (_joint-author_) _see also_ Ely, Richard T.
It must be borne in mind that whatever style is adopted should be
strictly followed throughout.
An explanation concerning the collation (number of pages) is required.
The book has six prefatory leaves, paged in Roman numerals, i. to xi.,
made up of the half-title and the title (both unpaged), three pages
of preface (the second and third being marked vi., vii.), a blank
page, three pages with a list of contents (the second and third are
marked x., xi.), and a blank page, making twelve pages in all. Doubt
will arise in a case of this kind as to whether the title leaves and
the blank pages should be taken into account, but as the printer has
seen fit to include them all in his pagination, the statement of these
prefatory pages is better given as xii. The rest of the book is
straightforward, being paged from 1 to 388.
A briefer form of author-entry is
ELY, R. T., and G. R. WICKER. Elementary
principles of economics; with a short sketch
of economic history. _N.Y._, 1910
The places of publication may be shortened in this way where the
abbreviation used can be readily recognised--N.Y. for New York.
Examples of other places will readily occur to the cataloguer,
especially if they are in common use, as _Edin._ for Edinburgh, _Dub._
for Dublin, _Oxf._ for Oxford, _Camb._ for Cambridge, _Manc._ for
Manchester, _L'pool_ for Liverpool, and so on. The London Library
Catalogue goes much further than this, and gives _A._ for Amsterdam,
_C._ for Cambridge, _D._ for Dublin, _L._ for Leipzig, and other bare
initials in the same way, though they are not consistently used.
It not only omits London as the place of publication from English
books, as already recommended herein, but carries out the idea to the
exclusion of all capital cities in the cases of native published books,
leaving Paris, Berlin, Madrid, to be taken as understood when these
cities are the places of publication of French, German, and Spanish
books respectively. In many ways the economies effected in the London
Library Catalogue are notable, though so numerous that a considerable
explanatory list has to be given in the preface. The book we are
dealing with would appear in this style in the Author Catalogue
=Ely (Richard Theodore) & G. R. Wicker.=
Elem. princ. of economics, w. a short sketch of econ.
hist. s8º N.Y. 1910
and in the Subject Index would be further condensed. The shortest form
allowable in the catalogue of a popular library, without abbreviating
the words, is
ELY, R. T., and G. R. WICKER.
Elementary principles of economics. 1910
In considering the subject-heading for this book, we have the choice
of synonymous terms, viz., Economics and Political Economy. The first
is the more modern term which is gradually supplanting the other in
use, and for that reason it is the better to adopt. Having made the
choice definitely, we at once proceed to write a cross-reference, which
will prevent the placing of any other book upon the same subject under
the discarded heading whatever be the terms on the title-page. The
reader will be thus guided to the heading which has been chosen for the
subject. It is a fundamental principle of the dictionary catalogue,
which cannot be too often impressed upon the cataloguer, that a book is
entered under its specific subject quite irrespective of the terms used
upon the title-page, and that two books upon the same subject ought not
to be in two places. Accordingly the reference to this end will be
Political Economy. _See_ Economics.
which prevents the placing of any book under Political Economy.
The subject-entry is
=Economics=:
Ely, R. T., &c. Elementary principles of
economics. 1910
Besides the economies in _subordinate entries_ already referred to, it
will be seen that the second author's name has "etc." substituted for
it; as a well-recognised further economy that may be adopted without
hesitation.
No other entries of any kind are needed for the dictionary catalogue,
as the book is adequately catalogued as shown.
For the classified catalogue, the author-entry is marked 330.2 (300
Sociology, 330 Political Economy, 330.2 Compends), and the entries for
the indexes are
Economics 330
Political Economy 330
Ely, R. T., &c. Elem. economics 330.2
The writers of a published correspondence are regarded as joint-authors
in the same way, except that a book like
The correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph
Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872. 2 v. ports. 1883
cannot be covered very satisfactorily by an entry under the first-named
and a reference under the second, as in the Ely-Wicker above, such a
book needing two entries. An examination of it shows that the letters
were edited by Charles Eliot Norton, and, though this is not stated
on the title-page, it goes into the principal entry, but between
brackets (not parentheses), which, as Cutter says in his Rules, are
important, "both as a check on indiscriminate addition and as an aid to
identification." The main-entry is
CARLYLE, Thomas, and Ralph Waldo EMERSON.
Correspondence, 1834-72; [ed. by Charles
Eliot Norton.] 2 v. ports. 1883
and the second entry under
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, and Thomas CARLYLE.
Correspondence, 1834-72. 2 v. 1883
A reference is required under the editor's name, thus
NORTON, Charles E. (_Ed._) _See_ Carlyle, Thomas.
Most catalogues will have a goodly number of entries under Carlyle.
To enlarge the reference sufficiently to describe the particular book
involves a reference as long as an entry. In such case give the entry
NORTON, Charles E. (_Ed._) Correspondence of
Thomas Carlyle and Ralph W. Emerson. 2 v.
1883
or, shorter still,
NORTON, Chas. E. (_Ed._) Correspondence of Carlyle
and Emerson. 2 v. 1883
This is better than a reference, as it takes up no more room and saves
the searcher the trouble of turning to another part of the catalogue. A
book of this kind, obviously, has no subject-entry.
In the classified catalogue a dual book like this needs two
entries--one in 816.3 (American Letters) for Emerson, and another in
826.8 (English Letters) for Carlyle, with the index entries
Carlyle, Thos. Correspondence with Emerson, 826.8
Emerson, R. W. Correspondence with Carlyle, 816.3
The book itself cannot go under both these numbers on the shelves;
choice of one must be made, preferably the Carlyle number, though this
does not affect the entries in the catalogue except so far as the
necessary clue to the position of the book for finding is concerned.
A somewhat exceptional example of joint-authors, fortunately for the
cataloguer, is that of a man and wife whose names appear on their
books sometimes with the one leading, sometimes the other. This is to
be found in the books by the mountaineers and explorers Mr. and Mrs.
Workman, two of whose books may be taken to illustrate the matter, and
catalogued as they would be under ordinary circumstances, viz.,
WORKMAN, William Hunter and Fanny Bullock.
Through town and jungle: fourteen thousand
miles awheel among the temples and people
of the Indian Plain. 1904. pp. xxiv., 380,
map, illus.
WORKMAN, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter.
In the ice world of Himálaya: among the
peaks and passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru,
and Baltistan. 1900. pp. xvi., 204, maps,
illus.
Owing to the names being reversed, these entries would not come
together in the catalogue, so the cataloguer is quite justified in
stretching the meaning of the rules in order to avoid their separation.
The name that appears first in the majority of the books by the two
authors is adopted for the entry, which in this case is the lady.
Accordingly the first book will be brought under the second form of
the names, and other books they have written conjointly will be so
entered, that all of them may come together. In order to prevent
misunderstanding, and lest the second name be read as Hunter, the names
can be shortened, as
WORKMAN, Fanny B. and Wm. H. In the ice
world of Himálaya: among the peaks and
passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan.
1900. pp. xvi., 204, maps, illus.
-- Through town and jungle: 14,000 miles awheel
among the temples and people of the Indian
Plain. 1904. pp. xxiv., 380, map, illus.
It is allowable to interpret "fourteen thousand" as 14,000, in the
middle of a title, as above; if the title commenced with it, the words
are better.
Although the separate names of these authors may come together in the
catalogue, it is better not to anticipate that they will, so it is
safer to give the necessary reference--
WORKMAN, William H. (_joint-author_.) _See_ Workman,
Fanny B.
At the time of printing this reference may be omitted if it is found
that no other name comes between, though the reference stands if the
rules are literally followed.
For the first of these two books the subject-entry is
=Himalayas, The=:
Workman, F. B., &c. In the ice world of
Himálaya. 1900
and two references will be desirable and necessary,
=India=:
_See also_ Himalayas.
=Mountaineering=:
_See also_ Himalayas.
The first of these will insure that a person requiring books upon
India in all parts will not overlook those upon the Himalayas, and
the second will show that books upon mountain climbing in particular
regions are entered under the names of those regions.
As the journey chronicled in the second of these books covered the
length and breadth of India, it is entered under the name of the
country accordingly, and placed in that sub-division of the subject
allotted to books of travel.
=India=:
_Travels and Description._
Workman, F. B., &c. Through town and
jungle. 1904
Any subject-heading comprising a comparatively large number of books is
better sub-divided, as it not only facilitates reference, but in a way
indicates the character of the books.
Here again title-entries under "In" or "Through" would be useless and
wasteful.
For the classified catalogue the first of these books is marked 915.42
(History, Geography and Travels, Asia, India, North-west Provinces,
etc.), and the second 915.4 (Travels in India generally). The
index-entries are
Workman, F. B., &c. Ice world of Himálaya. 915.42.
-- Through town and jungle. 915.4
Himalayas, The 915.42
India (Travels), 915.4