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Cataloguingintroduction
Cataloguingintroduction
CATALOGUE
(meaning, definition, scope,
purpose, & Objectives)
Dr.S.L.Sangam
Professor and Chairman
Department of Library & Information Science,
Karnatak University Dharwad
slsangam@yahoo.com
Introduction
The main principle of the library is that
“books are for use”. It will be waste of time,
money, and man power if the readers cannot
get the desired materials and which already
in the stock of a particular library.
A Library catalogue is an essential tool,
especially when a library has a large
collection. It serves as a key to the resources
of a library. Without library catalogue, it
would be difficult to know what is available
and where it can be located.
Meaning of catalogue
The word ‘Catalogue” derived from Late Latin catalogus, from
Greek katalogos, from katalegein to list, from kata- completely
+ legein to collect.A catalogue arranged according to set of plan.
Kata means “according to” Logos means “Order or
reason”.Reasonable manner in a particular order.
1. A complete, usually alphabetical list of items, often with note
Giving details
2. (Business / Commerce) a book, usually illustrated, containing
details of items for sale, esp. as used by mail-order
1. (Library Science & Bibliography) to compile a catalogue of (a
library)
2. To add (books, items, etc.) to an existing catalogue
Definition
Cutter: “A catalogue is a list of books which is arranged
on some definite plan. As distinguished from a
bibliography it is a list of books in some library or
collection”
Brown: “An explanatory logically arranged inventory
and key to the books and their contents and it is
confined to the books in a particular library”.
According to oxford English Dictionary “The catalogue
is a now usually distinguished from a mere list or
enumeration by systematic or methodical arrangement,
alphabetical or other order, and often by the addition of
brief particulars, descriptive or aiding identification
indicative of locality, position, date, price or the like”
Ranganathan: has defined a library catalogue as a
“methodically arranged record of information about its
bibliographical resources.
Scope