Cataloguing
Time 1½ hours.
1. Describe the differences between "dictionary" and "classified" forms of catalogues, and the merits or defects of each.
2. Rule 28 of the Library Association Cataloguing Rules reads: "All persons generally known by a fore-name are to be so entered, the English form being used in the case of sovereigns, popes, ruling princes, Oriental writers, friars, and persons canonised." Give illustrations showing the meaning of this rule.
3. To what extent should the repetition dash be used in accordance with Cutter's Rules?
4. Give a list of divisions into which you could subdivide the subject-headings in a dictionary catalogue of: Bible, India, Chemistry.
5. Catalogue the five books set before you in accordance with Cutter's Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue, afterwards alphabetising all the entries by means of numbers, and making as many cross-references as may be necessary in the case of synonymous headings.
6. Catalogue the same books for a classified catalogue.
Classification and Shelf Arrangement
Time 1½ hours.
1. Explain the special features of the Dewey system of classification, and give a list of its classes, and the divisions under Sociology and Natural Science.
2. Compare the relative advantages of the Decimal Classification and Relative Index and the Dictionary Catalogue.
