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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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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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7answers
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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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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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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
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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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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 …
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1answer
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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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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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2answers
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E. Phillips Oppenheim novels by genre?
I have heard multiple recommendations for the crime and thriller/spy novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946). Unfortunately, I am completely unable to find a list of his ~150 n …
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2answers
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Magazine cataloging: The Advocate & Out
Recently, the publisher of these LGBT magazines decided that The Advocate would no longer be published as a stand alone subscription and suggested subscribing to Out instead. So I …
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2answers
123 views
Cataloging Folk Tales
I am a youth services librarian in a public library and I am wondering how others catalog their folk/fairy tale books. I think it would be great for the picture book versions of fo …
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Fast Cataloging
What is the best way to quickly learn Cataloging?
I just started as a solo librarian and am having to switch our library to a national standard. I do okay with copy cataloging …
