Charles A. Cutter

張慧銖. (2003). 圖書館目錄發展研究. 台北: 文華圖書管理

論目錄的目的

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2)

  1. 使讀者找到書，當他已知[著者|書名|主題]
    finding: to enable a person to find a book of which the [author|title|subject] is known.
  2. 展示圖書館的館藏，關於某一特定[著者|主題|體裁]
    排列(collocating): to show what the library has by a given [author|subject|kind of literature]
  3. 協助選書，根據[版本|特性(體裁或主題)]
    選擇(choice): to assist in the choice of a book as to its [edition|character]

Svenonius(2000)3)認為這Cutter對目錄三目地的主張是最廣為被引用的。

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1)
Charles Ammi Cutter,“Library Catalogs,“ in Public Libraries in the United States of America: Their History, Condition and Management: Special Report. Department of the Interior. Bureau Of Education. Part I (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1876), 526-622.
2)
Charles Ammi Cutter, Rules for a Dictionary Catalog, 4th ed., rewritten (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904)
3)
Svenonius, E. (2000). The intellectual foundation of information organization. pp.15-6.