Hi Shannon
We have only used dust jackets for our picture collection. We clip out the
suitable pictures and identify them (often on the jacket itself) and file
these by artist, or topic. We also save the bit on the author and file
this under the author's name along with the name of the book.
We also have a long bulletin board in the hallway outside our division. We
put up book jackets and get a lot of enquiries about the new books. So,
we are thinking of using them now to enhance *our* new book list
online. This would meaning some scanning. Was this successful?
We are also starting a project to scan the title pages (or some relevant
nice page) of some of our rare books in our rare book collection. These
will be accompanied by an annotation and will be on our homepage. It is
one way of making our rare items a little more interesting and accessible.
It might even come to pass that we could make a link from the catalogue
record.
Just think of the possibilities - book jacket-wise, or title page-wise, or
interesting image from the book-wise....
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Diana E.M. Cooper 604-822-3943
Fine Arts Reference Librarian
Fine Arts Library
University of British Columbia
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Shannon Van Kirk wrote:
> All,
> A colleague and I have been thinking about our growing digital collection
> of book jackets (we make them available to enhance our New Books list). As
> he said, "I hope I'm not opening a new line of attack for Nicholson Baker,
> but does anyone know of a library that systematically collects dust jackets
> and maintains the collection?"
>
> In my experience, most libraries seem to use them for projects or displays,
> or simply dispose of them. Certainly it would be a complex project to
> collect, preserve, catalog and index dust jackets, and any library's
> collection would be only a sampling of publishers' production.
>
> On the other hand, there are several collections, exhibition catalogs, and
> books devoted
> to individual collectors, designers, publishers, and genres (science
> fiction or romance jacket art, for example), and it looks (from WorldCat
> records) as though a few libraries have tried at one time or another to
> develop collections.
>
> As long as I'm posting this question to the list, I might as well try to
> turn it into a discussion. Should libraries try to collect dust jackets?
> Why? How? Has your library thought about/done this?
>
> Thanks for any leads and comments,
> --shannon
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