Manual Of Practical Indexing Classic Reprint

Download or read book Manual of Practical Indexing (Classic Reprint) written by Archibald Leycester Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manual of Practical Indexing In offering the following pages I have been actuated by a desire to supply indexers with something approaching a method of guidance in their work. I am rash enough to consider that the customary apology indulged in by authors of manuals and text-books is unnecessary, for until quite recently little or nothing has been written on indexing form the practical standpoint, in a connected or comprehensive form. I am only too well aware that a work of this nature must have its shortcomings, for the chapters composing it have been produced at such intervals as could be spared from other engrossing occupations. The early part of the work has already appeared in serial form in The Library World but the matter has been largely re-cast and condensed. I am especially indebted to Mr. J. Y. W. MacAlister, and to Mr. James Duff Brown, who has kindly given me permission to make extracts from his valuable Manual of Library Economy; also to Mr. W. E. Doubleday, Librarian of the Borough of Hampstead, who has rendered me much assistance in revision of the manuscript. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.