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Psyche 3:44, 1880.

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PS YCHE.
PSYCHE.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., MARCH 1880.
Communications, exchanges and editors'copies should be addressed to EDITORS OF Ps~c~~,Cambridge, Mass. Communicatiom for publication in PSYCHE must be properly authenticated, and no anonymous articles will be published.
Editors and contributors are only responsible for the statements made in their own communications. Works on subjects not related to entomology will not be reviewed in PSYCHE.
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TITLE SLIPS.
The only kind of bibliographical record
yet devised which can be always current, and still be conveniently arranged, is a card catalog.
Recognizing this fact, most
libraries in the front rank of the science catalog their books by a card system. To enable such libraries to work together and in the best way, a committee of the Ameri- can Library Association (a society having for members the leading librarians and
bibliographers of America, and, we do not hesitate to say, the most skilful managing librarians in the world), made a report
upon uniform title-entries, which was pub- lished in the Library Journal (1878, v. 3, p. 12-20). In a succeeding numero of the same journal (1878, v. 3, p. 113-115), a report was made upon the subject of printed title slips, and, to put into practical shape the rules laid down in these reports, a
monthly list of the books which appeared in America, during 1879, was published
under the name of The Title-Slip Begistry. This list was printed on one side of thin paper, for cutting and pasting upon the
To accord with the methods of work
used and so carefully planned by the Lib- rary Association the mode of recording
articles in PSYCHE has been changed, and, at present, the title slips which may be cut from the thin paper edition of PSYCHE are, in form and type, the same as those of The Title-Slip Registry. Slight changes in the record were necessary because PSYCHE re- cords not only books but also the literature found in periodicals.
A few statements in regard to the most
convenient form of using these title slips may not be inappropriate for such of our readers as are not librarians or bibliog~a- phers.
The size of card recommended by the
American Library Association - and kept
on sale by their supply department - is 5 by 12& cm. The title slip is pasted in the middle of the upper portion of this card, leaving a margin of about 3 cm. at each
end. The slips are then arranged in alpha- betical order as an author-catalog ; or, by writing a suitable catch-word in the left hand margin, they may be arranged as a
subject-catalog. The right hand margin
remains for shelf designation or such indi- cation of possession as the owner may
wish. These marginal notes may be writ-
ten in pencil, thus allowing their possessor to arrange the slips, as best suits his pur- pose from time to time, by species, by gen- era, by families, or in the order of publi- cation. Care should be taken, if one
prizes the appearance of his list, to secure a paste that does not turn yellow by age. A child can do the pasting of the slips. Their value will be appreciated as they
accumulate. G: D.
cards of library catalogs.




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