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A catalog (or catalogue) is an organized, detailed, descriptive list of items arranged systematically. It may also refer to a list of items enumerated with a specific numbering scheme. There are many different numbering schemes for assigning numbers to entities. ...


Some specific types of catalogs are:

In Botany a Flora (or Floræ) is a collective term for plant life and can also refer to a descriptive catalogue of the plants of any geographical area, geological period, etc. ... Jump to: navigation, search Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepaticophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of an area; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants, and is by far the most abundant biotic element of the biosphere. ... An herbal is a book, often illustrated, that describes the appearance, medical properties, and other characteristics of plants used in herbal medicine. ... ... A library catalog (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library. ... Jump to: navigation, search Look up book on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mail-order catalog is a publication containing a list of general merchandise from a company. ... In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need. ... Pharmacopoeia (literally, the art of the drug compounder), in its modern technical sense, is a book containing directions for the identification of samples and the preparation of compound medicines, and published by the authority of a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society. ... Jump to: navigation, search Drug may refer to: A substance perceived or defined as a drug in clinical medical practice or a substance perceived or defined as a drug in legislation and political strategies so as to prevent or punish abuse of the substance. ... Cover of the 1996 Michel Catalog volume covering Europa West A stamp catalog (or stamp catalogue) is a catalog of postage stamp types. ... Jump to: navigation, search This 1974 stamp from Japan depicts a Class 8620 steam locomotive. ... In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Pleiades star cluster A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion. ...

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Map Department - The Card Catalogue (684 words)
The card catalogue also includes reference to some maps, atlases and books held elsewhere in the Library.
Catalogue records for items added to the Map Department collections since August 2000 will only be found in Newton, the Library's online catalogue (See Information Sheet 5C or click here for tips on searching Newton for maps and atlases).
Please note that prior to the 1950's these geographic headings were not typed onto the cards, though the information is contained in the title information on each catalogue card.
Penn History--Development of the Library's Card Catalog (1386 words)
As the new cards were prepared they replaced the old ones in the catalogue.(11) t was a thorough and painstaking procedure and the finished result was the solid foundation of the present catalogue.
An attempt was made to force the new Library of Congress cards into the old pattern, or, as time went on, the old cards into the Library of Congress pattern,(17) by weird systems of crossing out and numbering parts of headings on the catalogue cards.
Cataloguers are faced constantly with the problem of how much correction and co-ordination of old entries they can undertake without dangerously retarding the cataloguing of current accessions.
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