Cataloguing rules: author and title entries / compiled by committees of the American library association of the Library association.

Date:
1908
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Credit: Cataloguing rules: author and title entries / compiled by committees of the American library association of the Library association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c) CORPORATE BODIES AS AUTHORS GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Specification. Governments (states, provinces, municipalities, ecclesiastical, mili- tary, or judicial districts) are to be considered as authors of their official publications. 58 General rule. Enter under names of countries, states, cities, towns, etc.* official publications issued by them or under their auspices. The names of the departments, bureaus, etc. from which the publications emanate are to be given as subheadings. Great Britain. Parliament. Prussia. Ministerium des innern. U. S. Department of state. In the entry of government publications, use for a subheading the name of the office rather than the title of the officer, e.g. Bureau of education, not Commissioner of education. (Cutter, 53) 3*\*r Make a general reference from the name of the head of a department to the name of the office. Wilson, James, see also U. S. Department of agriculture. Occasionally the title of the officer is the only name of the office. In that case it is to be adopted as subheading. Illinois. State entomologist. The name of the occupant of the office, preceded by the dates of his incumbency, may be added to such subheadings as President, Governor, Mayor, etc., in order to bring together the publications issued during a given administration. U. S. President, iy8<p-/ygy (Washington) 59 Bureaus or offices subordinate to a department. Enter government bureaus or offices subordinate to a department directly under the country, not as subheadings under the department. U. S. Bureau of insular affairs, with references from U. S. Insular affairs, Bureau of. U. S. War department. Bureau of insular affairs. U. S. Hydrographic office, with reference from U. S. Navy department. Hydrographic office. Italy. Direzione generate dei telegrafi, with references from Italy. Telegrafi, Direzione generate dei. Italy. Ministero dei lavori puhblici. Direzione generate dei telegrafi. Italy. Ministero delle poste e dei telegrafi. Direzione generate dei telegrafi. Prussia. Statistisches landesamt, with reference from Prussia. Ministerium des innern. Statistisches landesamt. The Publishing board and Library of Congress enter names of departments, bureaus, etc. in their direct form. Many libraries will prefer the inverted form, e. g. U. S. Educa- tion, Bureau of; Massachusetts. Agriculture, Stale board of. (cf. U. S. Supt. of documents. Author headings for U. S. public documents, 1903) Still another form has been adopted in Bowker’s “State publications,” viz. New Hampshire. [Agriculture] Board of agriculture. Vermont. [Insane] Superi'isors of the insane. A fourth plan which offers advantages, particularly for a printed card catalog, is to print the distinctive word or words of the subheading in a special type (e. g. gothic) This affords * In the English form. cf. r30, Geographic headings.