Category: Blog posts
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Cataloguing update : rare book discoveries
Read more: Cataloguing update : rare book discoveriesThe past few months I have been cataloguing rare books and familiarising myself with copy-specific MARC fields, such as 561 and 562. I have been enjoying discovering intricate details that reveal more about a book’s provenance.
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Classification – a mix of 3 systems! (part 2)
Read more: Classification – a mix of 3 systems! (part 2)On a first and superficial look it seems like the Heythrop Library uses the Library of Congress Classification (LCC), but this is not true. There are some classmarks which look like LCC, but are in fact an adaptation: the Lynn-Peterson scheme (first edition from 1937! The Library nowadays makes also one radical change from LCC to…
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Subject list : Philosophy of religion 1
Read more: Subject list : Philosophy of religion 1This is the second post in a series on us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last six months (since 1 October 2025, the beginning of our financial year). The list is sorted by date of publication. We hope that these lists will help to share what we have bought or added…