Your Home Library: The Complete System for Organizing, Locating, Referencing, and Maintaining Your Book Collection

About this book

For the general book lover someone whose ardor for the printed word has led to stacks of yet-to-be-read volumes on floors and other surfaces heres a great enjoyable way to keep track of them all. This comprehensive kit draws upon the expertise of one of the worlds greatest libraries the only facility of its kind with both world-class research and circulating collections. It includes a CD containing custom software to organize and record your book collection by title author subject location on your bookshelf and numerous additional useful categories. Also included are beautiful bookplates an instruction manual and an instructive volume on creating and organizing home libraries written by an experience librarian. The 96-page book celebrates the myriad of joys of being a book lover and addresses such issues as evaluating and organizing a collection and keeping it in place with bookends and shelves; caring for books and the art of loaning books that are actually returned.