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2answers
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Cataloging help?
Our library has several books on the topics of finding a good balance between work and home; job and family and social obligations, etc. I have no clue where to put these books. …
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2answers
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Simple copy cataloging?
What is simple copy cataloging? My understanding is that certain kinds of material do not require full cataloging. A simplified cataloging done by a paraprofessional could improve …
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4answers
79 views
Covering mangas?
I was able to purchase books for my middle- and high-school library, and I bought a few mangas for the middle schoolers.
Now it is time to process and catalog them, and I wonder: …
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7answers
249 views
Cataloging a small school library collection
Right, so I have a (sadly not so) hypothetical question. Let's suppose that my little collection of books has only been cataloged once, twenty years ago (when they typed the recor …
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34answers
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Why write the call number inside the book?
The librarian here before me always wrote the call number near the copyright information in each book as it was being cataloged and processed. We've continued to do this, but I don …
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3answers
149 views
Based on “What’s your favorite part of your job?” where are the happy catalogers?
I catalog for a special library and create a fair number of original records on OCLC. I was slightly taken aback that none of the answers to "What's your favorite part of your job? …
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2answers
109 views
Cataloging Videos for Beginners
I'm a school librarian at a private, independent school (so, no district media specialist). I'm planning an upcoming project to catalog and reclassify our media collection (We're …
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6answers
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graphic novel and novel adaptation conundrum
With all of the new adaptations and graphic novel/ manga versions of classic novels, we are having an issue with deciding where to place these new books. For example, should a mang …
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1answer
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Cataloguing small (church) library
This past summer, I worked as an administrative assistant at my church. We have a small library, but everyone who used to keep it going has moved away, and no one's taken it up aga …
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1answer
114 views
What Classification system would you use for a small One Person Library??
I work in a single person library with a collection of approx 3500 items (rapidly expanding). The system was originally set up by a non library person who had worked previously in …
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7answers
626 views
Open-source cataloging system for personal use?
In a previous question I caught the names of a few open-source cataloging systems--Evergreen, Millenium, Horizon, Polaris--but my particular needs are a bit unusual. I've volunteer …
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1answer
83 views
How to organize art books
Would you do it by author, title, artist? I'm a librarian and I was starting to sort by author, but sometimes that seems irrelevant or there isn't one, so I started thinking...
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3answers
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Science Fiction and Fantasy — One Genre Title?
At my current library, there has been a rippling of ideas in possibly changing the Genre Titles for Science Fiction and Fantasy to a single Genre. Beforehand, all of them were clas …
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3answers
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Call number with no author and number in title
How to do the call number of book with no author and the title begins with the number 13?
Title: 13 scary ghosts stories
Call number: SC 13 or SC Thi
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1answer
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Millennium and the 710 author/title field.
Hi all-
We just recently discovered an interesting problem with the relationship between Millennium and good old AACR2 :-) We usually fill out the 710 author/title if the previous …
