Tag: collections spotlight
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Cataloguing update: investigations in stenography
Read more: Cataloguing update: investigations in stenographyAt first glance this Bible appears relatively unassuming. I started cataloguing as I normally would by first looking at a book’s title page. As I had only paid attention to one part of the title ‘The Holy Bible containing the Old & New Testament’, I thought this would be a pretty straightforward job.
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Cataloguing update : bound-with volumes
Read more: Cataloguing update : bound-with volumesSince we made the switch to our new library management system, Koha, the trickiest task I have faced has been cataloguing ‘bound-with’ or ‘multi-tract’ volumes. ‘Bound-with’ refers to separately published works bound together in one or more volumes.
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Cataloguing update : botanical discoveries
Read more: Cataloguing update : botanical discoveriesMy latest cataloguing discovery is that two books about flowers can tell us a lot about the expanse of Heythrop’s heritage collections. I catalogued these books about botanicals in the past couple of months and realised they each showcase different strengths in the collection.