U. S. BUREAU OF EDUCATIONSPECIAL REPORT ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES—PART II
RULES FOR A DICTIONARY CATALOGUE
by Charles A. Cutter

PREFATORY NOTE.

There are plenty of treatises on classification, of whichaccounts may be found in Edwards’s Memoirs of Libraries andPetzholdt’s Bibliotheca Bibliographica. The classificationof the St. Louis Public School Library Catalogue isbriefly defended by W. T. Harris in the preface (whichis reprinted, with some additions, from the Journal ofSpeculative Philosophy for 1870). Professor Abbot’s planis explained in a pamphlet printed and in use at HarvardCollege Library, also in his “Statement respecting the NewCatalogue” (part of the report of the examining committeeof the library for 1863), and in the North American Reviewfor January, 1869. The plan of Mr. Schwartz, librarian ofthe Apprentices’ Library, New York, is partially set forthin the preface to his catalogue; and a fuller explanationis preparing for publication. For an author-cataloguethere are the famous 91 rules of the BritishMuseum [1](prefixed to the Catalogue of Printed Books, Vol. 1, 1841,or conveniently arranged in alphabetical order by Th.Nichols in his Handbook for Readers at the British Museum,1866); Professor Jewett’s modification of them (SmithsonianReport on the Construction of Catalogues, 1852); Mr.F. B. Perkins’s further modification (in the AmericanPublisher for 1869), and a chapter in the second volumeof Edwards. [2]But for a dictionary-catalogue as a whole,and for most of its parts, there is no manual whatever.Nor have any of the above-mentioned works attempted to setforth the rules in a systematic way or to inv

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