How Do You Catalog A Book Collection?
There comes a time when a book collection becomes a library. When books are stacked in every room of the house and doubled up on your bookshelves, you may find that it becomes difficult to lay your hands on just the right one, or to even remember whether you have a particular book in your possession. You don’t have to have a degree in library sciences to catalog your own collection. You just have to have the time to spend on it. And you can be as detailed (or as perfunctory) as you like. After all, it’s your collection. Organize your library. Your catalog will be much more useful to you if it not only identifies and describes the books in your collection but also tells you how to find a book quickly and easily. Organizing your books beforehand will also make the cataloging process much simpler. In doing this, you can take a cue from your public library: put all fiction in one section, science books in another, philosophy books in another, photography books in another, and so on. Unless
