That is, put first the country’s own works (governmental
publications), then the works about the country; and as we put the
criticisms on a voluminous author after the separate writings to which
they respectively apply, so we put accounts of or attacks upon any
branch of government after the entry of the branch.
251. In arranging government publications make all necessary divisions
but avoid subdivision. {91}
It is much clearer—and it is the dictionary plan—to make the parts
of a division themselves independent divisions, referring from the
including division to the subordinate one. _E. g._ (to take part of
the headings under «United States»):
_Subordination._
«United States.»
Department of the Interior.
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Patent Office.
Pension Office.
Public Land Office.
Department of the Navy.
Bureau of Navigation.
Hydrographic Office.
Naval Academy.
Naval Observatory.
Bureau of Navy-Yards and Docks.
Naval Asylum.
Department of War.
Adjutant-General’s Office.
Bureau of Engineers.
Bureau of Topographical Engineers.
Commissary-General’s Office.
Freedmen’s Bureau.
Military Academy.
_Better order._
«U. S.»
Adjutant-General.
Bureau of Engineers.
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Bureau of Navigation.
Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks.
Bureau of Topographical Engineers.
Commissary-General.
Department of the Interior.
Department of the Navy.
Department of War.
Freedmen’s Bureau.
Hydrographic Office.
Military Academy.
Naval Academy.
Naval Asylum.
Naval Observatory.
Patent Office.
Pension Office.
Public Lands.
The subordination of bureaus and offices to departments is adopted
simply for convenience, and is changed from time to time as the
exigencies of the public service demand. There is no corresponding
convenience in preserving such an order in a catalogue, but
inconvenience, especially in the case of the above-mentioned changes.
The alphabetical arrangement has here all its usual advantages without
its usual disadvantage of wide separation.
252. Insert a synopsis of the arrangement whenever there are enough
titles under a heading to require it.
This applies chiefly to the larger countries (as «France», «Great
Britain», «United States»), the more voluminous authors (as «Cicero»,
«Shakespeare»), one title-entry («Bible»), and possibly some subjects
not national. The arrangement of titles under «Bible» will be governed
by §§ 240, 242, 245, and 247; but it can be best understood from an
example in some catalogue which has many titles under that heading.
The synopsis in the Boston Athenæum catalogue is as follows:
Whole Bibles (first Polyglots, then single languages arranged
alphabetically).
Works illustrating the whole Bible (under the heads Analysis,
Antiquities, Bibliography, Biography, Canon, Catechisms, historical
and theological, Commentaries, Concordances, Criticism, Dictionaries,
Evidences, authority, etc., Geography, Hermeneutics, History,
Inspiration, Introductions, Natural history, Science and the Bible,
Theology, morals, etc., Miscellaneous illustrative works).
Selections from both Testaments.
Prophetical books of both Testaments.
Old Testament.