Copyright sign

Author tables - special tables by which the author’s mark is determined for each publication.

The copyright mark should not be confused with the Ketter mark ( English Cutter number ) - this is the symbol of the first word, with which the first element of the bibliographic description begins. It consists of the initial letter of the word and the number corresponding to the first, and sometimes subsequent letter combinations of the same word. Sometimes the scope of an author’s mark extends not to one word, but to two or more.

Ordinal word - the word from which the bibliographic description of the publication begins.

With various systems of arrangement of the book fund, one of the main signs is the alphabet . It is advisable to extremely simplify the arrangement, making it as purely mechanical as possible. Significant relief and acceleration of this operation is achieved by using tables of copyright marks.

The copyright signs that make up the table allow you to arrange books in the exact alphabetical order, almost without thinking about which of them should be alphabetically before and which later, and guided only by an alphanumeric sequence.

According to the table for the Cyrillic alphabet, you can assign both binary and ternary numbers of the copyright sign. Ternary numbers are obtained by decimal division of each binary number. In this case, ternary numbers are consistent and connected with binary.

For convenience and space saving, the neighboring letters of the alphabet are grouped in two (A and B, C and D, etc.), and the column of numbers equally refers to each combination of letters formed by them.

Copyright marks are in strictly alphabetical order. They are indicated by the corresponding letter and numbers: binary - from 11 to 99, ternary - from 11 to 999.

The location of the copyright mark in a printed publication in the USSR was determined according to GOST 7.4–77 and GOST 7.4–86, and in Russia it is determined by GOST 7.0.4–2006.

For books, this is the upper left corner of the cover of the title page - immediately below the BBK index with an indent of three letters from the left edge. The classification indexes UDC , BBK and the copyright mark form the cipher of the publication.

The copyright mark is also an obligatory element of the layout of the annotated catalog card , where it is placed opposite the second line of the bibliographic description.

Prince Shcherbakova G. Remember not to be forgotten. M., 2008.

Щ61 is the copyright mark of this book on “Two-digit author tables”.

It was necessary to find in the column of initial syllables the syllable Shcherb and the number related to it:

• Library and Bibliographic Classification (BBK)
• Imprint
• Layout of annotated catalog card
• Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)

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Khavkina L. B. Copyright tables

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