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Bibliography and Modern Book Production Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2025
No questions of the “write-short-notes-on-the-following”-type are included. Students would do well to learn the definitions from the Index.
L.A. = Library Association Examination Question.
S.A.L.A. = South African Library Association Examination Question.
C.U. = Cape Town. University. School of Librarianship Examination Question.
* The questions marked thus should not be attempted before these Notes have been mastered.
PART 1.
CHAPTER I.
What is meant by the statement “True [descriptive] bibliography is the bridge to textual, that is to say literary, criticism”? (Greg)
What do you understand by the term “analytical bibliography” and what are the wider purposes which it serves? (L.A. 1945)
“Bibliography” has been variously defined. To what different kinds of activity do you consider the term may properly be applied? (L.A. 1950)
*”…yet without this sort of editing there is no security that we are reading what the author intended us to read”. (Esdaile)
What sort of editing is probably meant, assuming the work to be a 16 century text? (L.A. 1950)
CHAPTER II.
If you had to deal with a library containing many early printed books, what bibliographical aids would you consider essential? (L.A. 1941)
Describe in detail the scope and arrangement of three bibliographies of bibliographies. (L.A. 1944)
In what main bibliographical works is English Literature down to the year 1800 recorded? (L.A. 1944)
Trace the development of modern English trade bibliography, including a critical commentary on its resources. (L.A. 1944)
Name and describe briefly the main general bibliographies of German literature. (L.A. 1946)
Write a brief review of the main published catalogues of the British Museum. (L.A. 1951)
(a) What is the distinction between “primry” and “secondary” bibliographies? Give two examples of each.
(b) What in your opinion are the most important gaps in the primary bibliographies of this country. [Union of South Africa] (S.A.L.A. 1949)
Discuss, in relation to South African conditions: “It is to a large extent true of bibliography…if you take care of the present, the future will not have to take care of the past”.
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