62. In the title-a-liners references are not an economy; they occupy as
much room as an entry, and therefore the imprint may as well be given
whenever the reference does not take the place of several titles.
63. Mr. Perkins would catalogue directories, state registers, and local
gazetteers under the name of the place, omitting the author-entry This
is for Short alone, and should never be done by Full or Medium.
64. Trials of crown, state, and criminal cases may be entered only
under the name of the defendant, and trials of civil cases under the
parties to the suit, treated like joint authors, and trials relating to
vessels under the name of the vessel (subject-entries of course). But
Full and perhaps Medium should make author-entries under the reporter.
It may be doubted, however, whether a stenographic reporter is entitled
to be considered an author any more than a type-setter.
Collected reports of trials will of course (§ 59) go under the
collector: for subject-entry they come under the place over which
the court has jurisdiction, and if they relate to a single crime (as
murder), under that also. {38}
65. Often in analysis it may be worth while to make a subject-entry and
not an author-entry, or vice versâ.
66. An economical device in some favor is to omit the entry under the
author’s name when the library contains only one work by him.
By this practice many famous authors, of whom no small library is
likely to contain more than one work (such as Boswell, Dante, Gibbon,
Lamb, Macaulay, Milton, indeed almost any of the English poets),
will not appear in the catalogue; while the man who has written
both a First class reader and a Second class reader, or a Mental
arithmetic and a Written arithmetic, or two Sunday-school books, must
be included. It is not necessary to say more to show the absurdity of
the rule. If some authors must be omitted, let it be those who the
librarian knows are never called for, whether they have written one or
fifty works.
67. Another objectionable economy is to put biographies under the name
of the subject alone, omitting author-entry, so that there is no means
of ascertaining whether the library possesses all the works of a given
author.