Anne Welsh is Secretary of the London Bibliophiles, a voluntary position she has held since the group was founded in 2016 as the University of London Society of Bibliophiles.
Tame Your TBR
Are you one of the many readers who have so many books on your To Be Read shelf (or pile) that you don’t know where to start? Thankfully lots of bookstagrammers have the answer for you. Here are ten of my favourite TBR jars:
A TBR jar is a great move if you want to randomise your selection of books. @veronica.unabridged shared her selection of Tuesdays with Morrie.
Research Affiliation
“Having spent part of the last ten years encouraging students to publish their dissertations, I’m happy at last to be in a position to pick up my own Masters research again – 25 years later!
Thanks to @edcdcs for a research affiliation while I dig into the W&R Chambers files again, once it is safe to travel in the new year.”
— Beginning Cataloguing Instagram yesterday.
Photo by Andy Horton.
Beginning Bibliography Begins
We were really happy to welcome participants to Beginning Bibliography, whose first unit materials went live yesterday.
With books stranded in my old office, my London Library membership really came into its own in preparing the course – first time using postal delivery. As usual, their service was superb.
I’ve also acquired some new old books, ordering online from various booksellers, who have similarly been quick and efficient in posting out. You can’t teach material culture without the materials, that’s for sure!
Beginning Copy Cataloguing
An event report for Concetta‘s July Masterclass is under preparation by one of the attendees, but for now you can see her presentation (registration required), read the live tweets with links to the tools she covered, and book her August Masterclass, Beginning Cataloguing Ebooks, which takes place on 10 August.
Women in Type
Yesterday on the Bodies in the Library Instagram I shared a picture of the note in the first edition of The Widening Stain (New York: Knopf, 1942) about the Baskerville type used by its printer, H. Wolff. Arne Winter commented, “And not even one mention of Sarah Eaves.”
This made me think that maybe I should say something about her here.
Continue reading “Women in Type”Cutting the Jargon: What’s a Cutter?
On our Instagram today we posted a little about a deaccessioned library copy of the murder mystery The Widening Stain, referencing how it was shelved and why it was classified as it was. This blog post unpacks some of the cataloguing jargon (“ALA Rules”; “Cutter”; “Book Number”) and points you towards sources for further information.
This post is written for beginning cataloguers, or those who want to know more about Library of Congress Classification and the old A.L.A. Rules.
Continue reading “Cutting the Jargon: What’s a Cutter?”