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Image 1 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples.- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 2 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples.- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 3 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples.- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 5 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. Published monthly by the New York State Education Department BULLETIN 339 MAY 19 OS New York State Library Melvil Dewey Director Bulletin 94 LIBRARY SCHOOL 19 INDEXING PRINCIPLES, RULES AND EXAMPLES PAGE...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 6 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. STATE OF NEW YORK EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Regents of the University With years when terms expire 1913 Whitelaw Reid M.A. LL.D. Chancellor New York 1906 St Clair McKelway M.A. L.H.D. LL.D. D.C.L. Vice...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 7 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. State Library Albany N. Y. Mar. i, igo^ Hon. A. S. Draper Commissioner of Education Dear sir: The accompanying brief treatise on indexing is sub¬ mitted for publication in the Library School...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 9 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. New York State Education Department New York State Library Melvil Dewey Director Bulletin 94 LIBRARY SCHOOL 19 INDEXING PRINCIPLES, RULES AND EXAMPLES Importance. The importance of book indexes is so widely recog^-...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 10 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 4G() NF:\V YORK STATE LIBRARY entific hands. It is not generally recognized that a really good index can not be made except by persons with special skill and special experience; that indexing...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 11 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 467 found with illustrations, which would aid in compiling indexes to bibliographies, genealogies and other works comprising many names, though often inapplicable to general subject indexing. Statements and illustrations are also...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 12 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 468 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY DEFINITIONS OF TERMS Subject. The subject is any event, place, person, fact, relation, topic, idea, or whatever is an object of thought and may become an object...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 13 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 469 quently contain illustrative or explanatory matter or digressions of various kinds which, though useful in their connection, a reader would not anticipate from his knowledge of the subject, nor expect...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 14 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 470 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY CHOICE OF HEADINGS Consider the character of the book to be indexed; what class of persons will generally consult it: high school pupils, scientific men, literary students,...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 15 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 471 Here the main idea, which runs through several pages, is that of man’s utilization of the power of the universe, both physical and spiritual. It might be expressed in the...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 16 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 472 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY 6 I Subject of book. Avoid indexing under the main subject of the^book, unless it is the only word or group of words for which the searcher...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 17 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 473 8 Significant word. If the heading is a phrase, enter under first word unless a later word is more significant; e. g. a Actions at law; Conduct of life; District...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 18 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 474 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY sufficient fulness to enable the searcher to find what he wants with¬ out unnecessary effort, and the folly of increasing the size and expense of the work...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 19 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 475 MODIFICATIONS In word or name indexes the heading is usually followed directly by the page reference, but in subject indexes modifying phrases are frequently added to differentiate the passages cited...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 20 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 476 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY hunting through long lists of names, Mr Solly found that each reference cost him two minutes of time, a by no means extravagant estimate; hence it would...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 21 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 47T the too zealous economy of a reviser who had_J^stricken out a saving “the” before Jerseys. Inversions under^heading. Avoid needless and confusing inver¬ sions under heading. The subject word is generally...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 22 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 478 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY Allusions and unimportant statements. In case of unimportant allusions to persons, such phrases as “referred to,” “alluded to,” “cited” and “quoted” are convenient and quite sufficient. Index...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 23 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 479 Analysis under heading. When all, or most of the matter relating to a single subject is given consecutively and is not very extended, it is generally not worth while to...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 24 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 480 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY tion. With these limitations the modifications can seldom be so specific as in the more common paragraphed index. CROSS REFERENCE Cross references are of two kinds, commonly...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 25 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 481 Never make a reference to a related heading unless there is actually a relevant entry there; i. e. do not refer to what may be, but only to what is....- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 26 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 482 NEW YORK STATE LIITRARY (about one third of the way down). Of the superior figures, the odd numbers i, 5 and 9 denote the top, middle or bottom of the pages;...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 27 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 483 The relative importance of the colon and semicolon must be indicated by spacing; very narrow spaces on each side of the colon and regular spacing after the semicolon will prevent...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 28 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 484 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY space, and consequent blocking of letters. When this occurs, a new place must be set aside, a reference made, and thereafter it will be necessary to look...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 29 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 485 must be made in fulness of indexing the marked proofs are invalu¬ able, and in a long index or one which has been interrupted, they are of great service in...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 30 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 48G NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY ^/vv v jvcrv lj^ Vxcrt. YvslxjO^ ^u:’ {^Yvo^ Consistency and ^iformity are very desirable through¬ out the index Consistency, besides being necessarily a part of a well...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 31 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 487 directs that it be used alone as a heading, modified by “synony¬ mous,” as indicated by the short second line under that word. Curves inclose the modification of the heading...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 32 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 488 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY may be bought for this size, which is that of standard catalogue cards. Rules for V slip entries. Write on each slip a single entry, giving page,...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 33 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 489 1 VERIFYING The indexer, at frequent intervals unless the index is very short, should verify the slips, whether they have been written by him¬ self or an assistant, by carefully...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 34 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 490 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY ARRANGEMENT OF MODIFICATIONS Before final alphabeting this puzzling question must be decided: Shall the modifications under each heading be arranged in order of entry (i. e. order...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 35 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 491 It is still more objectionable in cases where there are many mod¬ ifications having no salient alphabetic key words to guide the seeker, who flounders helplessly and in no pleasant...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 36 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 492 NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY required information. For matter about which h*? would probably have in mind a chronologic rather than an alphabetic outline, order of entry is better. One great advantage...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 37 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 493 The subjects here are really three: (i) Boundaries (2) Boundaries, Connecticut (3) Boundaries, Connecticut, commissioners; the last entry stated in full in the natural order would be: Report of the...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 38 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 494 NEW YORK STATE ITERARY The natural and often justifiable impulse to accept the title word if it satisfactorily represents the subject in indexing magazine articles, results, when 150 periodicals are indexed...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 39 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. INDEXING 495 mals and Zoology have been used, discard one heading if possible, retaining the one more appropriate to the text; make reference in either case; e. g. Zoology, see Animals Animals,...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School
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Image 40 of Indexing; principles, rules and examples. 496 NEW YORK STATE LIKKARY Tables, description, 51^ See also Statistics Technical schools, bulletin on, i6 power to grant certificates, 51®, 135^-362; legislation affecting, 137^- 40 statistics: 74-81, 475-91; com¬ mencement, 478;...- Contributor: Wheeler, Martha Thorne - Bascom, Elva Lucile - New York State Library. School