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Cindy, I know from personal experience that some students will ask for help finding books on the shelf they thought were not there because the cover was not on the book.... "But it didn't look anything like the book in the library catalog".... Different editions and reprints of books will have different covers too, so keeping the cover on the book is not fail-safe as compared with imagery in the catalog, but there's no question that graphics help students locate books as well as browse the shelves better - a lot better. Mo -- Mo Dawley Senior Librarian Art and Drama Librarian Carnegie Mellon University [log in to unmask] 412-268-6625 On 2/28/2011 9:52 AM, Cindy Wolff wrote: > The activity on this question made me curious. Does the ability of your online catalog to show thumbnails of covers influence your decision to keep book covers? Wouldn't it make things easier to identify on the shelf when browsing if you see the thumbnail and then the actual cover on the shelf? > > Cindy Wolff > Pratt Institute > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~