Systematic catalog

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A systematic catalog (SyK for short, also real catalog or science catalog ) is a library catalog that lists the publications of a library according to scientific areas. Each work is assigned to a subject area under which it is entered in the catalog.

Structure and content

In contrast to the subject catalog, the systematic catalog does not group the catalogs according to individual, alphabetically ordered subject headings, but rather summarizes the literature of entire scientific areas and their sub-disciplines. The resulting disadvantages are that the user has to learn the underlying system and that the catalog has to change with every change in the scientific system. Systematic overviews and alphabetical subject indexes are used as aids in the systematic catalog.

Often, but not always, systematic catalogs were also location catalogs . Depending on the situation, one speaks of location-based systematic catalogs and location-free systematic catalogs.

history

The first systematic library catalogs were those of the medieval libraries, inventories or location registers. These listed the books in the order of their factual listing according to science. The systematic catalog continued to prevail in the 18th century. An important example of this period is the real catalog of the Göttingen SUB , which was started in 1738 . Other important catalogs are the Old Real Catalog of the Bavarian State Library, begun in 1870, and the Old Real Catalog (ARK) of the State Library in Berlin , created between 1841 and 1881 .

The addition Old means that this catalog refers to holdings that were published earlier, mostly before 1945 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Dietmar Strauch, Margarete Rehm: Lexicon book, library, new media. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Saur, Munich 2007, p. 412.