See books for yourself; do not trust that the cataloguer has told you everything.
I am a cataloguer myself, and I know that, try as he may, a worker of that class cannot hope to know or to see every detail that is of importance.
There was one article in the Pyne auction, of which the simple-minded cataloguer had as correct an estimate as Messrs Reeves & Turner, who sold it to my friend.
But certainly the cataloguer misinterpreted the G.
With this hint or two the young cataloguer will easily find his way; and various devices for doing this or that more handily are sure to suggest themselves in the course of practice.
In fact, we have to come to the conclusion that when men think of making changes in their names they pay very little attention to the difficulties they are forging for the cataloguerand the indexer.
There can be no doubt, however, that he requires a certain amount of knowledge; and the good cataloguer and indexer, without knowing everything, will be found to possess a keen sense of knowledge.
We must be careful not to invent an author by misreading a title, as was done by the cataloguer who entered the Relatio felicis agonis of certain martyrs as the work of one Felix Ago.
There is one class of pamphlets which gives the cataloguer much trouble, viz.
The cataloguer must not jump to conclusions upon insufficient authority, or, as some persons have proposed, take a short list from the books and amplify the titles from bibliographies.
In such a case the cataloguer will do well to give some indication of the true contents, either in a note or as an addition to the title within brackets.
Then follows a searching examination of each individual title, with the result that any claims to be considered a correct cataloguer which Mr. Collier may have been supposed to have were entirely annihilated.
Cataloguer always to think of the wants of the consulter, 3.
Probably it will be best for the cataloguer to settle each individual case on its own merits, and to be generous in the use of cross-references.
Sometimes a second title-page will occur in the middle of a book, and the cataloguer must be careful not to make two books out of one.
This is not a subject which is likely to trouble the general cataloguer much, and in the case of a multitude of Oriental works special information must be sought.
Before dealing with these points it is necessary to give the cataloguer a warning not to take his title from the outer wrapper.
The fourth is simple and intelligible; it is usually easy for both cataloguer and reader to determine whether a society is English or foreign.
The date is one of the most important portions of a title, and the cataloguermust seek for it until he finds it.
The cataloguer must then consult the best catalogues of collections of manuscripts, and choose the plan best suited to his particular purpose.
Here the art of the cataloguer comes into play, by which he is enabled to choose what is important and reject the redundant.
This raises the important question whether the cataloguer is ever justified in giving subject-entries for works of fiction, especially historical romances.
The cataloguer would keep the complete scheme in all its details before him and, by means of an alphabetical index to every adopted name, he would have a list of the subject-headings in dictionary order and to these he would adhere.
If the cataloguer be not "a walking encyclopædia" in himself, he at least should know how to utilise the printed ones, and all other literature at his command.
The old dictum that it was not the business of a cataloguer to go behind, or add to, the information deemed sufficient by an author for the title-page of his book does not now find acceptance.
The cataloguer sometimes comes across a name which he may remember as a decidedly changed name from his point of view, when there is no alternative but to adopt the newer form.
It must be confessed that the risk is not great where such well-known writers are concerned, but if they should be unknown authors of a past age or another country, the cataloguer would probably not be so well-informed, and fall into error.
When literal exactness is the custom of the library the author's name as above would be enclosed in brackets to show that it is an addition made by the cataloguer under the rule previously alluded to.
Friars or other ecclesiastics who drop their surnames and adopt a religious name happily are not often found among the writers of books in an average library, though the cataloguer of a theological library will have to reckon with them.
It has already been shown that the offices held by a writer and his academical or other honours are ignored by the cataloguer unless for the special purpose of distinguishing between authors of the same name.
While Tyrwhit was busied on the "Canterbury Tales" his attention was excited by the old cataloguer of the Cottonian manuscripts to a Chaucer exemplar emendate scriptum.
In the curious catalogue of these romances in the Roxburgh Library, the cataloguer announced three or four of these pretended authors as "names unknown to any literary historians," and considered the announcement a literary discovery.
A cataloguer has a faint impression that there is an Albany, too, somewhere in the State of New York.
An expert cataloguer connected with one of the large auction firms of New York then took up the subject.
The cataloguer stated his case in sufficient fulness of detail and the first page of the text was reproduced.
The cataloguer has never before seen a pistol of this type.
One of the lightest pistols the cataloguer has ever seen.
The only one of the sort that the cataloguer has ever seen.
The task of the exact cataloguer is full of difficulty, constantly renewed, and demanding almost encyclopaedic knowledge, and incessant care of minute particulars.
First, there can be no standard prescribing what words should or should not be capitalized, and the cataloguer will be constantly at a loss, or will use capitals in the most unprincipled way.
A book may be asked for under several different classifications, and the skill of the cataloguer is required to decide how many cards are needed and under what headings the books should be listed.
The cataloguer labels the books as they come in and prepares cards which will represent the books in the catalogue.
In the title of a later edition, some particular may have been given, which to us is very important, but which the cataloguer has omitted.
The only practicable method of securing uniformity or convenience would seem to be, to require, as is done above, the cataloguer to employ initial capitals according to established laws, regardless of the title-page.
Here, we are to presume, some of our witnesses would take the first method given, others would leave the cataloguer to comply with the author's request.
It would teach nothing to copy from the book the initial capitals in one part of the title, and allow the cataloguer to supply them in other parts.
When the cataloguer has gone through the library in this manner, he is to return the printed catalogues, in the margin of which he has marked the common titles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cataloguer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
