{"id":7264,"date":"2015-05-11T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:04:03","slug":"cover-page-markings-date-back-to-libraries-before-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/cover-page-markings-date-back-to-libraries-before-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cover Page Markings&#8221; Date Back to Libraries Before Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7267\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/05\/CALLOUT_Marks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7267\" class=\" wp-image-7267\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/05\/CALLOUT_Marks.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil markings on cover page. (Indicated by red arrows)\" width=\"362\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/05\/CALLOUT_Marks.jpg 406w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/05\/CALLOUT_Marks-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pencil markings on cover page. (Indicated by red arrows)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Did you know that Markings found on cover pages in books date back to libraries before computers?\u00a0 Back then, library staff created cataloging (to help our users find our books) which had to be typed on cards and filed manually in the card catalog.\u00a0 This means there were limited \u201cretrieval points.\u201d But if we needed to remove a book from the collection, we needed to find and remove all the cards in the card catalog for that book.\u00a0 Every book had at least a main entry card, which was the most important card of all, because it told us how many other cards were in the catalog for that book, and what they were.\u00a0 The three dashes you see on the title pages of books indicate the start of the main entry that was used on that all important card (which is usually the main author or sometimes the title).\u00a0 Frequently, the main entry was obvious, but cataloging rules sometimes made it a bit obscure.\u00a0 The underlining is the start of the title.<\/p>\n<p>We no longer need to follow this practice because technology means we have multiple ways to find and remove the cataloging records from our catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Markings found on cover pages in books date back to libraries before computers?\u00a0 Back then, library staff created cataloging (to help our users find our books) which had to be typed on cards and filed manually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/cover-page-markings-date-back-to-libraries-before-computers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-about-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7271,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}