Informatics Studies
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 2

Indian national bibliography

  • Author:
  • S.R. Ranganathan
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Published Online: May 1, 2019
  • Page Number: 7 to 16

Abstract

Suggests an organizational set-up for the Indian National Bibliography. Recommends that each instalment of the Bibliography should consist of independent, but co-ordinated volumes of fascicules for each of the languages in which books and periodicals are published in the country. The concerned language fascicules to be produced by the appropriate states and to be co-ordinated by the National Central Library. Examines the impracticability of multi-lingual bibliography in a single sequence in relation to marketing, classification and cataloguing, time factor, etc. Stresses the need for following an appropriate catalogue code to suit our needs and a versatile analytico- synthetic scheme for classification. Suggests the bringing out of another experimental fascicule of the Bibliography arranging the entries by CC numbers to make an objective comparative study of the helpfulness of the arrangement of the entries.

Keywords

Bibliography, Indian National Bibliography, Languages, Scripts, Multilingual, Classification, Enumerative Classification, Analytico-Synthetic Classification, Cataloguing, Prenatal Cataloguing, Cataloguing Standards, Great Britain, India