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Question about cataloging commentaries

Posted by Carol Coffey on March 4, 2012 at 22:25

I'm getting ready to re-catalog our entire library and I'm wondering how y'all are cataloging commentaries.  Right now, ours are cataloged by set and are shelved separately, but I'm thinking that it might be more useful to catalog them by the book of the Bible covered in each volume.  Those volumes that cover more than one book will be more difficult but that happens in only a small number of cases.  I would still shelve the commentaries separately from the rest of the collection.  Any thoughts?

Thanks!

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  • Rita Kirkland March 5, 2012 17:13

    Yes, we are going by the book of the Bible and shelving them accordingly.  Works so much better when someone is looking for information on a book of the Bible.  We subject them with Bible. O.T. - Genesis, Bible Commentary and we place them with the Genesis material (just as an example).  When you want Genesis we can direct you to everything on Genesis in one area.  Very nice!

     

    Rita Kirkland

    First Euless

  • Gene Cahall March 5, 2012 3:29

    I catalog individual commentaries by the Bible book or the first book (e.g. 1 & 2 Cor.). However, I catalog a series (Barclay, Mastering the Old Test, etc.) as a series so the full set is together, using Vol-01, Vol-02, etc. as an extra Dewey line so they will be in order.

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