A simple strategy for writing a useful catalog description. “An old, pretty book on plants, with illustrations” can seem perfectly fine in a casual conversation, but it is no way to describe an item in…
A book’s cover can say, in big letters, The Modern Home Library. The title page reads, The Modern Home Library: Organizing, Cataloging, and Caring for a Personal Collection. Both are titles of the same book,…
Here are four books just returned to you. On their spines you can see 641.5 AND, 641.57 BRO, 641.509 LEE, and 641.6 MOR. You can’t put them back in order just by reading the cover,…
The purpose of a book’s cover is to capture interest while the title page is there to document what is a publication. This distinction has implications for creating your basic records. Text on the cover…