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The Library Association rules were at one time adopted for the 
catalogue of the Bodleian Library, but in 1882 Mr. Edward B. Nichol- 
son, the librarian, arranged and had printed a set of “ Compendious 
Cataloguing Rules for the Author-Catalogue of the Bodleian Library,” 
which has since been added to, and now numbers sixty rules. 
But the most important of all these codes of cataloguing rules is 
undoubtedly Mr. Charles A. Cutter’s “ Rules for a Printed Dictionary 
Catalogue,” first published in 1876 as the second part of the “ Special 
Report on Public Libraries in the United States.” Mr. Cutter not only 
goes much more minutely into every division and sub-division of his 
subject than any of his predecessors, but he also sets out clearly and 
forcibly the reasons on which each rule is founded, making his work of 
inestimable benefit to the librarian, and especially to the cataloguer. 
Mr. H. B. Wheatley, the well-known English librarian, while strongly 
combatting many of Cutter’s rules, and the arguments advanced in sup- 
port of them, acknowledges fully and frankly that “it would be difficult 
to find anywhere in so small a space so many sound bibliographical 
principles elucidated.” 
Mr. Wheatley’s own little book, “ How to Catalogue a Library,” is 
an extremely interesting and instructive contribution to the available 
literature on the subject. It furnishes, in compact and lucid form, a 
statement of the first principles of cataloguing, with an impartial dis- 
cussion of the most notable codes, English and American. 
The American Library Association, like its sister body of Great 
Britain, has also put forth a collection of rules, entitled “ Condensed ~ 
Rules for an Author and Title Catalog.” 
Another American work on the subject is Mr. F. B. Perkins’ “ Cata- 
loguing for Public Libraries,” San Francisco. 
Two codes of rules for card catalogues are Mr. Melvil Dewey’s 
“Library School Card Catalog Rules” ; and Mr. K. A. Linderfelt’s 
“Eclectic Card Catalogue Rules; Author and Title Entries.” Mr. 
Linderfelt’s elaborate work is based on the German code of Dziatzko, 
librarian of the Breslau Library, compared with the rules of the British 
Museum, Cutter, Dewey, Perkins, and other authorities. 
In his article on “ Cataloguing ”—one of the “ Papers Prepared for 
the World’s Library Congress”—Mr. Wm. C. Lane, Librarian of the 
Boston Atheneum, summarizes the points of general agreement in regard 
to a library catalogue. These points are briefly as follows :— 
1. The necessity of a comprehensive and detailed card catalogue. 
If a carefully made and reasonably full printed catalogue exists, the card 
catalogue may form simply a supplement to this, but if the printed catalogue 
be only a finding list, or short-title catalogue, the card catalogue should be 
complete in itself. 
