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Re: New Yorker Article



In addition to decrying the elimination of card catalogs (because they
hold information on use as well as specialized library knowledge noted by
librarians) Nicholas Baker also wrote a piece for the New Yorker some
years back in which he identified and commented on the books used as
backgrounds in sales catalogs, primarily those of Pottery Barn.

The interesting thing is that all he had to go on were the fragments of
titles on the spines. So he looked them up in an on-line bibliographical
database to identify them. Ironically, he did not seem conscious of the
fact that this would not have been possible in a card catalog.

   ---Terry

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>

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