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The ESTC began life as the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, with the same abbreviation, covering only 1701 to 1800.Earlier printed works had been catalogued in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave's Short Title Catalogue (1st edn 1926; 2nd edn, 1976–91) for the period 1473 to 1640; and Donald Goddard Wing's similarly titled bibliography (1945–51, with later supplements and addenda ...
A parts book, parts catalogue or illustrated part catalogue is a book published by a manufacturer which contains the illustrations, part numbers and other relevant data for their products or parts thereof. Parts books were often issued as microfiche, though this has fallen out of favour.
The English Short Title Catalogue is a comprehensive survey of all books published in English. Nevertheless, this tradition of national bibliography has two main drawbacks. Firstly, national bibliographies are seldom complete.
A short-title catalogue (or catalog) is a bibliographical resource that lists printed items in an abbreviated fashion, recording the most important words of their titles. The term is commonly encountered in the context of early modern books, which frequently have lengthy, descriptive titles on their title pages .
A catalogue number (British English) or catalog number (American English) may refer to: Any number used to identify an item in a catalog (disambiguation), including: Accession number (disambiguation), in libraries and museums; Auction catalogue; Catalog number (music), a number assigned by a record label
Catalog or catalogue may refer to: Cataloging. in science and technology Library catalog, a catalog of books and other media Union catalog, a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries; Calendar (archives) and Finding aid, catalogs of an archive; Astronomical catalog, a catalog of astronomical objects
MARC (machine-readable cataloging) is a standard set of digital formats for the machine-readable description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books, DVDs, and digital resources.
These and other early online catalog systems tended to closely reflect the card catalogs that they were intended to replace. [2] Using a dedicated terminal or telnet client, users could search a handful of pre-coordinate indexes and browse the resulting display in much the same way they had previously navigated the card catalog.