The feasibility of the annotated catalog card layout in university publications by the Ural Federal University Publishing House

State Standard GOST R 7.0.3-2006 sets the following functions of the edition notice: consumer informing, bibliographic processing and statistics on publications. Consequently, the notice can be considered in terms of its usefulness / uselessness for readers and librarians, booksellers, the Russian Book Chamber that does statistics on publications. One of the additional elements of the edition notice is the annotated catalog card layout. A.E. Milchin sees its function in the reduced time of edition processing in a library: librarians can copy the layout with all the essential information on a book immediately after receiving it. That is why GOST 7.51-1998 and the current GOST 7.0.13-2011 strictly regulate the size of the annotated catalog card: 125 x 75 mm; the layout size is the size of the catalog card. The question of the feasibility of the annotated catalog card layout can be considered on the basis of educational and scientific literature published by the Ural Federal University Publishing House. The annotated catalog card layout is not functional for books bibliographic processing and statistics, for the university libraries, including the regional UrFU Research Library, are equipped with an electronic cataloging system, which involves entering information on the edition in the electronic fields of future cards. This is also true for organizations where 16 mandatory copies of publications are sent. Only two layout elements are functional for the reader: 1) the title of the bibliographic reference and the bibliographic description that helps the reader to make correct reference to the publication in academic papers; 2) publisher's abstract designed for a quick introduction of the publication. The remaining elements of the annotated catalog card layout (UDC, BBK, copyright, ISBN) as mandatory elements of the edition notice are duplicated on the back of the title page and have little information for the reader. Consequently, a mandatory annotated catalog card layout as part of the edition notice in the Ural University publications seems unfeasible. The functional approach can help to determine the usefulness of this element for educational and scientific publications of other universities. Design of the edition notice should be conscious.

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