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Coping with catalogues: Thomas Carlyle in the British Museum.
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19961201
Author:Rapple, Brendan A.
The elitist Thomas Carlyle commented on British Museum's inconveniencies and requested for its cataloguing to improve book searches. The cataloguer Panizzi designed the BM's Catalogues using the 91 Rules from which all existing modern cataloguing codes were derived. The catalogue is expected to be full, accurate and elaborate.
As the British Library prepares for its forthcoming divorce from the British Museum and its move to its controversial modern building it is amusing to see how one of the great Victorians coped in the splendid old building.
Thomas Carlyle over and over criticised ...
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