subject catalogue

These two lists have formed the basis of indexing practice, theory and discussion in respect of alphabetical subject catalogues for some years.

A hand-written subject catalogue also exists; work on this subject catalogue may have started in the 1790s, and it was kept updated through several subsequent decades.

Analysis of the subject catalogue shows that as of 1820 44% of the titles in the Library were concerned with history, and 16% were literature of various kinds.

Most notably, Callimachus, created what is considered to be the first subject catalogue of the library holdings, called the pinakes which contained 120 scrolls arranged into ten subject classes.

It seems almost self-evident that a subject catalogue should at least conflate singular and plural noun forms, and remove possessive endings and the English "ing" suffix.

A professional cataloguer had helped in the move of the Georgetown Library in 1913 and in the conversion to "Dewey" in 1915, but the subject catalogues were full of "local variations".

A persistent searcher might find some records by browsing subject headings, but one would thing that any subject catalogue worthy of the name could go straight to the records described by the above headings.

In acknowledging these principles, Sears' is consistent with traditional ideas on the construction of alphabetical subject catalogues; these are also followed in the Library of Congress List of Subject Headings.

Besides the excellent subject catalogues and articles in scientific publications, Bond published "Of the Russe Common Wealth" by Giles Fletcher the Elder (1856), "Travels" by Jeremias Horsey (1856), "Chronicon Abbatiae de Melsa" and others.

Sartre's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue, with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra, Arithmetic, Calculus, Geometry.and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard.