The Library Of The University Of California Classic Reprint

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Download or read book Library of the University of California, Vol. 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Library of the University of California, Vol. 1: Contents-Index This volume is a result of the endeavor to utilize all the resources of a comparatively small but valuable Library of reference. Two working tools of the collection are the short-title analytical Author Catalogue and the full-title classified Subject Catalogue. Early in our experience, however, it became evident that the cataloguing ordinarily done was insufficient to meet the demands of university study, and the practice of indexing books and magazines immediately upon their receipt was begun. To prevent the subject catalogue from attaining an unwieldy growth and to retain its character as an actual shelf-guide, the experiment was made of writing the index upon sheets of note paper size arranged alphabetically in boxes placed upon the librarians desk where it was centrally located for purposes of reference and available for the insertion of fresh entries at any moment. Fourteen years of trial have demonstrated the success of the experiment as a labor and time-saver in the daily assistance to readers. Generally, nothing less in extent than a ten octavo-page article has been entered in the index. Dates following the name of a person are those of his birth and death. Roman numerals (excepting the lower-case v. for volume) signify a series, period or portion of a work. Volume and page numbers are separated by a colon. A dash after the page number denotes continuation of the article. A word of explanation is needed. Important and useful as indexing may be, to be clone at all in a library where the entire labor is performed by two persons, it must be executed in the most expeditious manner consistent with accuracy, and many of the niceties of bibliographic work must be disregarded. As, however, this volume will be consulted mainly by the professional librarian, it is hoped that the use of abbreviated titles, the omission of initials, etc., may not seriously affect its value. A vast number of references, since printed in Poole's Index to periodical literature, have been omitted; a few only, by reason of local authorship or interest, have been retained. During the progress of this Index through the press a large number of books and periodicals have been received, and references to them, falling under the first part of the alphabet, will appear in the second volume, for which sufficient material will have accumulated when an additional forty or fifty thousand volumes have accrued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.