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  1. The cards are to be copied in regular library form, as indicated by the samples. Do not follow irregular forms found on the library film.

  2. Leave three-quarters of an inch margin along the left-hand edge of card.

  3. Copy the author’s full name and dates just as they appear on the film, leaving eight (8) spaces after each initial, in the absence of either or both given names. If the author’s name runs over to a second or third line, each of these lines indented eight (8) spaces, counting from the first letter of the author’s surname.

  4. Copy the title as it appears on the film, indenting four spaces, starting under the first letter of the author’s surname. Long titles (more than 4 or 5 lines) may be abbreviated only with the permission and at the discretion of the supervisor.

Author with Initials Only

Sample 1

Beadle, A    E    1884-
   Cooperage trade of Great Britain…
Wash., Govt. print., off., 1927.

   ii, 29;.   (U.S. Bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce (Dept. of commerce)
Trade information bulletin, no. 486)

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Author with dates

Sample 2

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

   The dynasts, a drama of the Napoleonic
wars, in three parts, nineteen acts, & one
hundred and thirty scenes…   New York,
Macmillan, 1904; London, Macmillan & Co.,
ltd., 1906-08

   3 v.

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  1. Omit the author’s name in the body of the title inserting three periods to indicate omission, unless the book is jointly written by more than one author, or the author’s pseudonym appears in the body of the title. Samples 3 and 4 illustrate these exceptions.

Joint Author

Sample 3

Woodcock, Hubert Drysdale, 1867-

   Lilies; their culture and management,
including a complete descriptive list of
species, by H. Drysdale Woodcock, K.C.
and J. Coutts…   Lond., Country life
ltd.; N.Y., C. Scribner’s sons, [1935]

   xv, 242 p., 1 e.

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Pseudonym in Title

Sample 4

Alden, (Mrs.) Isabella (Macdonald), 1841-    Sidney Martin’s Christmas. By Pansy [pseud.]   Boston, D. Lothrop & co. [1879]

   610 p.

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  1. Copy statement “edited by” or “translated by” or “compiled by” just as it appears on the film.

  2. Copy editor, (ed.) compiler, (comp.) and translator, (tr.) on the author line two spaces after the name; or if there are dates, two spaces after the dates.

Editor or Compiler

Sample 5

Brown, (Mrs.) Mary Elizabeth (Adams), 1842-
      1917, comp.

   Dedications; an anthology of the forms
used from the earliest days of bookmaking
to the present time…   N. Y., and
London, Putnam’s, 1913.

   vii, vii-ix,p., 1 l., 470 p.

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  1. Copy edition description as it appears on the film, two spaces after the end of the title.

Edition

Sample 6

Woodhull, Alfred Alexander, 1837-

   Personal hygiene, designed for under-
graduates… 1st ed.   N.Y., J. Wiley &
sons; etc., etc., 1906.

   vii, 221 p.

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  1. Copy imprint, i.e., place, publisher and date, as it appears on the film, 4 spaces after title. Abbreviate well-known publishers as follows: Harper, MacMillan, Putnam, Holt, Scribner, etc., not Harper Brothers, the MacMillan Co., etc.

  2. Copy all the paging as it appears on the film. If volumes appear in lieu of paging, copy the volumes. If the phrase 2v. in 1, etc., appears, copy it exactly as it appears on the film.

  3. Do not copy notes, contents, accession numbers, tracing, etc.

  4. Do not copy call number (number locating book on shelf) which appears in the left hand margin of the cards on the film.

  5. Copy series note four spaces after collation (See Definitions, Appendix E) as given in parentheses on film, omitting the words “added title page,” “Lettered on cover,” etc. [p.F-5]

Series Note

Sample 7

Wooddy, Carroll Hill

   The growth of the federal government,
1915-1932…   N.Y.. London, McGraw-Hill
book co., inc., 1934.

   xiii, 577 p.   (Recent social trends
monographs)

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  1. Follow the capitalization and punctuation, accents, etc., exactly as given. Insert foreign accents and square brackets in pencil. Do not use square brackets in author’s name when copying from a manuscript card on the film. [p.F-6]

  2. If in doubt about what to omit, copy the cards as you find them. Long titles will necessitate the making of a second card.

Second Card

Sample 8

London missionary society

   A missionary voyage to the southern Paci-
fic Ocean, performed in the years 1796-1797,
1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain
James Wilson, Comp. from Journals of the
officers and the missionaries…With a pre-
liminary discourse on the geography and his-
tory of the South Sea Islands; and an appen-
dix including details never before published
of the natural and civil state of Otaheite;
by a committee appointed for the purpose by
the directors of the Missionary society…

(continued on next card)

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Sample 8 (continued)

London missionary society. A missionary
   voyage to the southern Pacific… (Card 2)

London, Print. for T. Chapman by T. Gillet,
1799.

   395 p.

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  1. Copy corporate entries as they are written. If the entry has a subdivision, copy the subdivision two spaces after the first part.

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  1. Serial publications. These are publications which appear at regular intervals, i.e., weekly, monthly, bimonthly, yearly, etc. In order to save space in the union catalog trays, only one card is made with an “open entry” i.e. “v.1” and the date of first publication followed by a dash instead of making a card for each issue of the serial. On many serial cards, however, the film will indicate final volumes and dates in pencil. Copy only the initial volume and initial date, using dashes followed by four spaces.

Serial under Corporate Entry

Sample 9

West Virginia country life conference

…Proceedings of the first-    West Vir-
ginia country life conference and the tenth-
Educational conference held at West Virginia
university… v.1-   1912-
Morgantown, W.Va., The University, 1912-

v.   (West Virginia university bul-
letin…)

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  1. Many books have no one person or organization indicated as responsible for their authorship. The main entry for such works is the title. Title entries begin on the top line indented four spaces.

Main Entry under Title

Sample 10

   Two centuries’ growth of American law,
1701-1901, by members of the Faculty of the
Yale law school.   N.Y., C. Scribner’s sons;
London, E. Arnold, 1901.

   xviii p., 1 l., 538 p.   (Yale bicen-
tennial pub.)

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Serial under Title

Sample 11

   The Journal of criminal law and crim-
inology… v.1-   May 1910-
Chicago, Ill., Published for the American
institute of criminal law and criminology
by the Northwestern University press [1910-

   v.

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  1. Author analytics. Many cards will appear on the film giving the author and title, with a note in parentheses beginning in or see. Copy these cards in the regular library form placing the in or see note in curves immediately below the title at the first indention.

Analytics

Sample 12

Woodes, Nathaniel, fl. 1580?

   The conflict of conscience.

   (In Dodsley, Robert, ed.   A select
collection of Old English plays. 4th
ed. by W. C. Hazlitt.   London, 1874-76.
v. 6, p. 29-142)

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  1. Copy cross-reference exactly as given, using the following form.

Cross Reference

Sample 13

Abaskin, Basil

See: Abashkin, Basil John 1899-