[note] 1. Compiled by a committee of five, Panizzi, Th. Watts, J. Winter Jones, J. H. Parry, and E. Edwards, in several months of hard labor.[/note]
[note] 2. To these may now be added: Condensed rules for an author and title catalogue, prepared by the co-operation committee, A. L. A. (printed in the Appendix of the present Rules); F: B. Perkins’s San Francisco cataloguing (1884); C: Dziatzko’s Instruction für die Ordnung der Titel im alphabetischen Zettelkatalog der Univ. Bibliothek zu Breslau (1886), of which an adaptation by Mr. K. A: Linderfelt will shortly be published; Melvil Dewey’s Condensed rules for a card catalogue, with 36 sample cards (published in the _Library notes_, v. 1, no. 2, 1886, and reprinted as “Rules for author and classed catalogs;” with changes, additions, and a “Bibliography of catalog rules” by Mary Salome Cutler, Boston, 1888, and again as “Library School rules,” Boston, 1889); G. Fumagalli’s Cataloghi di biblioteche (1887); H: B. Wheatley’s How to catalogue a library (1889); and various discussions in the _Library journal_, the _Neuer Anzeiger_, and the _Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen_.[/note]
[note] 3. In this second edition I have retained the discussions of principles of the first edition and added others, because it seems to me to be quite as important to teach cataloguers the theory, so that they can catalogue independently of rules, as to accustom them to refer constantly to hard and fast rules. The index, which will be published separately, has been enlarged so as to form an alphabetical or “dictionary” arrangement of the rules.[/note]
GENERAL REMARKS • 7 OBJECTS • 8 MEANS • 8 REASONS FOR CHOICE AMONG METHODS • 8 DEFINITIONS (with a note on classification) • 8
ENTRY (Where to enter) • 15 I. AUTHOR-ENTRY • 15 CATALOGUE • 15 A. AUTHORS • 16 (a.) Personal • 17 (i.) Who is to be considered author • 17 (ii.) What part of the name is to be used • 20 (iii.) What form of the name is to be used • 24 (b.) Corporate • 27 B. SUBSTITUTES FOR AUTHORS • 33 C. REFERENCES • 35 D. ECONOMIES • 37 II. TITLE-ENTRY • 38 CATALOGUE • 38 TITLES • 38 III. SUBJECT-ENTRY • 45 CATALOGUE • 45 SUBJECTS • 46 (a.) Entries considered separately • 49 (i.) Choice between different subjects • 49 (ii.) Choice between different names • 49 (b.) Entries considered as parts of a whole • 57 IV. FORM-ENTRY • 59 V. ANALYSIS • 60