Cataloguing Rules for the ADAM Database: a Procedural Manual

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[a] An alternative title is one that is different to the title proper, but is referred to in the chief source of information. For example, a resource that is referred to by an acronym and by its full name: DIVA & Digital Information from the Visual Arts

[b]A parallel title is one that exists in conjunction with the title proper. For example, a single title in two different languages: The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums & Le siècle des lumières dans la peinture des musées de France.

[c] Any of a class of words used to signal nouns and to specify their application. In English, the indefinite articles are a and an and definite article is the. [taken from Microsoft Bookshelf, Microsoft Corporation, 1995]

[d] A part of speech such as and, but, as, and because that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. [taken from Microsoft Bookshelf, Microsoft Corporation, 1995]

[e] 1. In some languages, a word placed before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, in, to, from, and with. 2. A word or construction similar in function to a preposition, such as in regard to or concerning. [taken from Microsoft Bookshelf, Microsoft Corporation, 1995]

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