MASONIC LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
South Australia and Northern Territories Grand Lodge
Masonic Libraries have special requirements to enable
cataloguing of the many different subjects found in their specialized
collections. Several different classification systems have been employed in
Grand Lodges Library over the years. The current system was adopted in
1989 following advice from the Librarian of the United Grand Lodge of
England. The Catalogue of the J.R.
Robertson Masonic Memorial Library is
arranged according to the following system. The current edition of the
Catalogue covers almost 70 pages and is available for purchase from the
Grand Lodge Office.
General Works on Freemasonry
1.1 Collected
works
1.2 Masonic
miscellanea
1.3 Encyclopaedias,
Dictionaries, Lexicons
1.4 Yearbooks,
Calendars, Directories, Lists - general
1.5 Bibliography
History and Philosophy of
Freemasonry
2.1 Masonic
research
2.2 Comprehensive
Works of Freemasonry, wide-ranging
2.3 Antiquities of
Freemasonry
2.4 Early Operative
Masonry
2.5 Old Charges,
Manuscripts and Landmarks
2.6 General Works
2.7 Secret
Organizations
2.8 History, general
2.9 Biography
2.10 Philosophy of
Freemasonry
2.11 Religion and
Freemasonry
2.13 The State and
Freemasonry
2.14 Orations,
Lectures, Addresses, Essays
Government and Organization of
Freemasonry
3.1 Jurisprudence
3.2 Constitutions and Laws
Grand Lodges
3.3 History
3.3.1 Proceedings, Conferences
3.3.2 Yearbooks, Calendars, Directories
Lodges
3.4 Individual histories, South Australia
and The Northern Territory
3.4.1 Individual histories, Interstate and
Overseas
Symbolism, Ritual and
Ceremonial
Symbolism
4.1 General - including non Masonic
subjects
4.1.1 Craft Degrees
Ritual
4.2 Commentaries
4.2.1 History
4.2.2 Texts
4.3 Ceremonial
4.4 Etiquette
4.5 Officers and their Duties
Regalia, Jewels and Documents
Regalia
5.1 History
5.1.1 Catalogues
5.2 Jewels
5.3 Warrants,
Patents, Certificates etc.
Other Masonic Degrees and
Orders
6 Royal Arch
7 Mark Masonry, and other Additional
Degrees and Orders
Benevolence
8.1 General
Masonic Music, Poetry, Plays,
Rhetoric
9.1 Music
9.2 Poetry
9.3 Fiction
9.4 Plays
9.5 Rhetoric - Toasts, Speech-making and
Meeting Procedure
9.6 Anecdotes, Humour, Parodies
The Fine Arts and Freemasonry
10.1 Architecture
10.2 Art
Anti Masonry and Vindications
11.1 General
11.2 So-called "Exposures"
11.3 Answers and Vindications
Irregular, Spurious and
Clandestine Freemasonry
12.1 General
Women and Freemasonry
13.1 General
Periodicals
15.1 Various
Non Masonic Subjects
16.1 History - General
16.1.1 History of Egypt
16.1.2 History of Palestine
16.1.3 History of Assyria
16.1.4 History of Babylon
16.1.5 History of Greece
16.1.6 History of Australia
16.1.7 History of United Kingdom
16.8 Biographies
16.9 Miscellaneous
16.10 Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,
Lexicons, general Yearbooks, Calendars, Directories
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