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CONGRESSO MONDIALE DELLE BIBLIOTECHE E DI BIBLIOGRAFIA
ROMA—VENEZIA 1929.
Sezione IIa Regole internazionali per la compilazione dei Cataloghi.
SUBJECT CATALOG - SCHLAGWORT-
KATALOG
By
JOHN ANSTEINSSON (Trondhjem, Norway)
THE DICTIONARY CATALOG is one of the most striking
innovations of modern American library practice. As every one knows,
this is a combination of the nominal and topical catalog, where the
author-entries, subject-entries and eventually also title-entries for all books
of the library are arranged in one alphabetical file.
Several large libraries in German speaking countries have recently
adopted a form of catalog much like the dictionary catalog. They retain
the old »Nominal-Katalog» containing author and title entries, and instead of
the »Real-Katalog», with the titles arranged according to a scientific
classi-fication, they arrange the topical catalog alphabetically by »Schlagworte».
This corresponds to the subject part of the American dictionary catalog,
but is established as a separate unit.
The American libraries have had more than half a century’s experience
of the alphabetical subject catalog, and it has been highly developed into an
excellent tool for all literary research work. The fundamental rules were
laid down by C. A. Cutter some fifty years ago, and the last edition of
his book from 1904 is still the most complete discussion of the problem
in American library literature.
The deciding factor in establishing a standardized practice in American
libraries is the excellent work of the Library of Congress in Washington.
It distributes thousands of printed catalog cards every year, with
subject-headings indicated ön each of them. The official lists of subject-headings
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