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bound volume. It may contain under each
entry merely the name of the author and
title, or it may contain descriptive matter
such as the number of pages, size of item,
name of the publisher, date and place of im-
print, or notes descriptive of the content or
critically appraising the value of the book.
The card catalog is to-day almost universally
employed, the cards being arranged in
drawers alphabetically from front to back
and the drawers being labeled on the outside
to indicate between what words or letters
their contents run. The cards in the catalog
are intended as a rule, to answer three types
of questions : What book or books by a given
author are there in the hbrary? Who is the
author of a given title? What books on a
given subject are there in the library?
Thi-ee types of catalogs may be employed
—the accession-record which is a chronologi-
cal list of volumes in order of addition, the
shelf list which is a record of the books in
the order in which they stand on the shelves
and the catalog in which the volumes are
generally listed alphabetically as in a diction-
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