Etymoxbhmagxbhagx: Enumerative Bibliography

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enumerative bibliography (also called compilative, reference or systematic), which results in an

overview of publications in a particular category and analytical or critical bibliography, which
studies the production of books.[14][15] In earlier times, bibliography mostly focused on books.
Now, both categories of bibliography cover works in other media including audio recordings,
motion pictures and videos, graphic objects, databases, CD-ROMs [16] and websites.
Enumerative bibliography[edit]
Bibliographer workplace in Russia
An enumerative bibliography is a systematic list of books and other works such

as journal articles. Bibliographies range from "works cited" lists at the end of books and
articles, to complete and independent publications. A notable example of a complete,
independent publication is Gow's A. E. Housman: A Sketch, Together with a List of His
Classical Papers (1936). As separate works, they may be in bound volumes such as those
shown on the right, or computerized bibliographic databases. A library catalog, while not
referred to as a "bibliography," is bibliographic in nature. Bibliographical works are almost
always considered to be tertiary sources.
Enumerative bibliographies are based on a unifying principle such as creator, subject, date,
topic or other characteristic. An entry in an enumerative bibliography provides the core
elements of a text resource including a title, the creator(s), publication date and place of
publication. Belanger (1977) distinguishes an enumerative bibliography from other
bibliographic forms such as descriptive bibliography, analytical bibliography or textual
bibliography in that its function is to record and list, rather than describe a source in detail or
with any reference to the source's physical nature, materiality or textual transmission. The
enumerative list may be comprehensive or selective. One noted example would be Tanselle's
bibliography that exhaustively enumerates topics and sources related to all forms of
bibliography. A more common and particular instance of an enumerative bibliography relates to
specific sources used or considered in preparing a scholarly paper or academic term paper.
Citation styles vary. An entry for a book in a bibliography usually contains the following
elements:
 creator(s)
 title
 place of publication
 publisher or printer
 date of publication
An entry for a journal or periodical article usually contains:
 creator(s)
 article title
 journal title
 volume
 pages
 date of publication
A bibliography may be arranged by author, topic, or some other scheme. Annotated
bibliographies give descriptions about how each source is useful to an author in constructing a
paper or argument. These descriptions, usually a few sentences long, provide a summary of
the source and describe its relevance. Reference management software may be used to keep
track of references and generate bibliographies as required.
Bibliographies differ from library catalogs by including only relevant items rather than all items
present in a particular library. However, the catalogs of some national libraries effectively serve
as national bibliographies, as the national libraries own almost all their countries' publications.
[17][18]
Descriptive bibliography[edit]
Fredson Bowers described and formulated a standardized practice of descriptive bibliography
in his Principles of Bibliographical Description (1949). Scholars to this day treat Bowers'
scholarly guide as authoritative. In this classic text, Bowers describes the basic function of
bibliography as, "[providing] sufficient data so that a reader may identify the book described,
understand the printing, and recognize the precise contents" (124).
Descriptive bibliographies as scholarly product[edit]
Descriptive bibliographies as a scholarly product usually include information on the following
aspect of a given book as a material object:
 Format and Collation/Pagination Statement—a conventional, symbolic formula that

describes the book block in terms of sheets, folds, quires, signatures, and pages
According to Bowers (193), the format of a book is usually abbreviated in the collation
formula:
Broadsheet: I° or b.s. or bs.
Folio: 2° or fol.
Quarto: 4° or 4to or Q° or Q
Octavo: 8° or 8vo
Duodecimo: 12° or 12mo
Sexto-decimo: 16° or 16mo
Tricesimo-secundo: 32° or 32mo
Sexagesimo-quarto: 64° or 64mo
The collation, which follows the format, is the statement of the order and size of the
gatherings.
For example, a quarto that consists of the signed gatherings:
2 leaves signed A, 4 leaves signed B, 4 leaves signed C, and 2 leaves signed D
would be represented in the collation formula:
4°: A2B-C4D2
 Binding—a description of the binding techniques (generally for books printed after
1800)
 Title Page Transcription—a transcription of the title page, including rule lines and
ornaments
 Contents—a listing of the contents (by section) in the book
 Paper—a description of the physical properties of the paper, including production
process, an account of chain-line measurements, and a description of watermarks (if
present)
 Illustrations—a description of the illustrations found in the book, including printing
process (e.g. woodblock, intaglio, etc.), measurements, and locations in the text
 Presswork—miscellaneous details gleaned from the text about its production
 Copies Examined—an enumeration of the copies examined, including those copies'
location (i.e. belonging to which library or collector)
Analytical bibliography[edit]
This branch of the bibliographic discipline examines the material features of a textual
artefact—such as type, ink, paper, imposition, format, impressions and states of a book—
to essentially recreate the conditions of its production. Analytical bibliography often uses
collateral evidence—such as general printing practices, trends in format, responses and
non-responses to design, etc.—to scrutinize the historical conventions and influences
underlying the physical appearance of a text. The bibliographer utilizes knowledge gained
from the investigation of physical evidence in the form of a descriptive bibliography or
textual bibliography.[19] Descriptive bibliography is the close examination and cataloging of a
text as a physical object, recording its size, format, binding, and so on, while textual
bibliography (or textual criticism) identifies variations—and the aetiology of variations—in a
text with a view to determining "the establishment of the most correct form of [a] text"
(Bowers 498[1]).
Bibliographers[edit]
Paul Otlet, working in an office built at his home following the closure of the Palais Mondial, in June
1937
A bibliographer is a person who describes and lists books and other publications, with
particular attention to such characteristics as authorship, publication date, edition,
typography, etc. A person who limits such efforts to a specific field or discipline is a subject
bibliographer."[20]
A bibliographer, in the technical meaning of the word, is anyone who writes about books.
But the accepted meaning since at least the 18th century is a person who attempts a
comprehensive account—sometimes just a list, sometimes a fuller reckoning—of the
books written on a particular subject. In the present, bibliography is no longer a career,
generally speaking; bibliographies tend to be written on highly specific subjects and by
specialists in the field.
The term bibliographer is sometimes—in particular subject bibliographer—today used
about certain roles performed in libraries [21] and bibliographic databases.
One of the first bibliographers was Conrad Gessner who sought to list all books printed in
Latin, Greek and Hebrew in Bibliotheca Universalis (1545).
Non-book material[edit]
Systematic lists of media other than books can be referred to with terms formed
analogously to bibliography:
 Discography—recorded music
 Filmography—films
 Webography (or webliography)—websites[note 1]
 Arachniography, a term coined by NASA research historian Andrew J. Butrica, which
means a reference list of URLs about a particular subject. It is equivalent to a
bibliography in a book. The name derives from arachne in reference to a sp

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enumerative bibliography (also called compilative, reference or systematic), which results in an

An enumerative bibliography is a systematic list of books and other works such

 Format and Collation/Pagination Statement—a conventional, symbolic formula that

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