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How to catalog Lynn Austin's book "Pilgrimage" ?

Posted by Joanne Ladewig on March 23, 2015 at 18:23

This book was read and enjoyed by two of our staff, one of whom went to Israel shortly after reading the book. She said the book definitely enhanced her experience there. There's no verso info on a suggested Dewey number - it's rather a unique book. Has anyone else cataloged it, and if so, what did you decide for a Dewey number? Thanks!

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  • Joanne Ladewig June 7, 2015 21:07

    Thanks Buford, Eva, and Betsy. Appreciate those sites. We finally went with Biography for this book.

  • Buford Carter June 7, 2015 16:36

    http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/

    is another interesting site to see how other libraries classify books.

    OCLC Classify -- an Experimental Classification Service
    Classify is an OCLC Research prototype that helps you classify books, magazines, movies, and music using the Dewey Decimal Classification system or t…
  • Betsy Ruffin June 7, 2015 10:04

    Like Eva Nell, I will often do a search for numbers to check on call numbers.  One place I use is the Library of Congress website (http://catalog.loc.gov/),  Look at the Marc Tags tab and check for tag 082 to get a non-LC classification suggestion.  For this one, they gave 

    082 00  |a 813/.54  |a B  

    That will also give you subjects.

  • Buford Carter March 23, 2015 19:13

    I did a worldcat.org and found a library that had cataloged it as biography along with a summary, subjects and contents.

    http://innopac.hal.org/search/?searchscope=6&searchtype=o&s...

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