_Ex._ «Andrew», _pseud._
«Andrew», _St._
«Andrew», _St., pseud._
«Andrew», John.
«Andrew», John, _pseud._
«Andrew», John Albion.
235. Arrange _incomplete_ names by the letters. If the same letters are
followed by different signs, if there are no forenames, arrange in the
order of the complexity of signs; but if there are forenames arrange by
them.
_Ex._ «Far» from the world.
«Far»...
«Far»***
«Far»***, B.F.
«Far»..., J. B.
«Farr», John.
236. If signs without any letters are used as headings (§ 57) (as ...
or †††) put them all before the first entries under the letter «A».
237. The arrangement of title-entries is first by the heading words; if
they are the same, then by the next word; if that is the same, by the
next; and so on. Every word, articles and prepositions included, is to
be regarded; but not a transposed article.
_Ex._ «Uncovenanted» mercies.
«Under» a cloud.
«Under» the ban.
«Under» the greenwood tree; a novel.
«Under» the greenwood tree; a poem.
«Under» which king.
«Undone» task, The.
«Undone» task done.
Here the transposed The is non-existent for the arranger.
It makes no difference whether the words are connected with one
another in sense or not; the searcher should not be compelled to
think of that. Let the arrangement be by words as ordinarily printed.
Thus «Home» rule is one idea but it is two words, and its place
must be determined primarily by its first word «Home», which brings
it before «Homeless». If it were printed «Homerule» it would come
after «Homeless». Similarly «Art» amateur is one phrase, but as the
first word «Art» is followed by a word beginning with am, it must
come before «Art» and artists, although its parts are more closely
connected than the parts of the latter phrase.
The French d’ and l’ are not to be treated as part of the following
word:
_Ex._ Art d’économiser.
Art d’être grandpère.
Art d’instruire.
Art de faire.
Art de l’instruction.
Art de linguistique.
Art des mines.
Art digne.
_not_ Art de faire.
Art de linguistique.
Art de l’instruction.
Art d’économiser.
Art des mines.
Art d’être grandpère.
Art digne.
Art d’instruire. {88}
238. Arrange titles beginning with numeral figures (not expressing the
number of the work in a series, § 244) as if the figures were written
out in the language of the rest of the title.
_Ex._ 100 deutscher Männer = Ein hundert deutsche Männer; 1812 = Mil
huit cent douze.
239. Arrange abbreviations as if spelled in full; but elisions as they
are printed.
_Ex._ Dr., M., Mlle., Mme., Mr., Mrs., as Doctor, Monsieur, etc.
But «Who’d» be a king?
«Who» killed Cock Robin?
«Who’s» to blame?
☞ The arrangement recommended in §§ 227–232 suits the eye best and
requires as little knowledge or thought as any to use. The exception
made in § 227 is required by universal practice and by the fact that
a very large part of the personal names beginning with prefixes are
commonly printed as one word. Names of places beginning with New,
Old, Red, Blue, Green, etc. (which might be likened to the prefixes
De, Des, Du, etc., and made the ground of a similar exception), are
much less frequently printed as one, and when they are the accent is
different. Moreover the words New, Old, etc., have an independent
meaning and occur as personal names, first words of titles, or of
the names of societies, as in the examples in § 230. The reason for
separating New Hampshire and Newark in the first example is patent to
every consulter at a glance; the reason for the different positions
of New legion and New York in the second example would not be clear
and would have to be thought out; and it is not well to demand thought
from those who use the catalogue if it can be avoided.
(b.) TITLES.
240. Under an author’s name adopt the following order: (1) Complete
(or nearly complete) works, (2) Extracts from the complete works, (3)
Single works, whether by him alone or written in conjunction with
another author, (4) Works about him.
Nos. 1–3 come first as belonging to the author-catalogue; 4 comes last
as belonging to the subject-catalogue.
It is better to let the smaller collections come in their alphabetical
place with the single works. The single works of a voluminous author
(as Aristotle, Cicero, Homer, Shakespere) should be so printed that
the different titles will strike the eye readily. If the “_contents_”
of the collected words are not printed alphabetically, it is well to
insert under the titles of the chief single works a reference to the
particular volumes of the collections in which they are to be found.
(See Boston Athenæum catal., art. «Goethe».) Two works published
together are arranged by the first title, with reference from the
second.
_Extracts_ from single works come immediately after the respective
works.
A _spurious_ work is arranged with the single works, but with a
note stating the spuriousness. But if the author’s name is used as
a pseudonym the entry should have a separate heading after all the
works; as, «Browne», H. History. «Browne», H., _pseud._ Stones from
the old quarry. _See_ «Ellison», H.
If there are only two _joint authors_ both may appear in the heading,
but the entry should be arranged among the works written by the
first author alone; if there are more than two the heading may be
made in the form «Smith», John, _and others_. The usual practice
hitherto has been to arrange entries by joint authors _after_ the
works written by the first author alone, and this was recommended
in the first edition in regard both to the form of the heading and
the arrangement; but although it is pleasing to a classifying mind,
it is practically objectionable because a reader, not knowing that
the book he is looking for is a joint production, and not finding it
in the first {89} series of titles, may suppose that it is not in
the library. This danger is greatest in a card catalogue, where it
entirely overweighs the somewhat visionary advantage of the separate
arrangement. The arrangement of a card catalogue should be as simple
as possible, because the reader having only one card at a time under
his eyes can not easily see what the arrangement is. On the printed
page, where he takes in many titles at a glance, more classification
can be ventured upon; there the danger is confined to the more
voluminous authors; where there are few titles the consulter will
read them all and so will not miss any. On the printed page, too, the
mixing in of joint authors interrupts to the eye the alphabetical
order of titles; _e. g._,
«Dod, T.» Anamites and their country.
— _and others_. Barracouta.
— Carriboo, a voyage to the interior.
— _and_ White, E. Dahomey and the slave trade.
— Elephanta, its caves and their images.
This trifling inconvenience can be easily avoided, however, by
including the second name in the title; _e. g._,
«Dod, T.» Anamites.
— Barracouta, by D. [and others].
— Carriboo.
— Dahomey, by Dod and E. White.
— Elephanta.
When the form «Smith», John, _and others_ is used, Full will give a
list of the “others” in a note. They are not put into a heading merely
because there is not room for many names on the first line of a card,
and in a printed catalogue the information seems more in place in a
note than in a very long heading.
241. In the order of titles take account of every word except initial
articles. If two titles have the same words arrange by date of imprint,
the earliest first.
_Ex._ «Address» of Southern delegates in Congress.
«Address» of the people of Great Britain.
«Address» of twenty thousand loyal Protestant apprentices.
«Address» on national education.
«Address» to a provincial bashaw.
«Address» to Christians, recommending the distribution.
«Husson, F.» Vie d’une grande dame.
— Vie dans le Sahel.
«Mason, T.» The corner stone.
— A wall of defence.