The New York Public Library Guide To Organizing A Home Library

In her Guide to Organizing a Home Library, the central feature of this new book, Kathie Coblentz has deftly adapted the expertise and methods of librarianship for the individual book buyer and collector. Her smart, down-to-earth advice for assessing, organizing, culling, cataloguing, maintaining, and expanding a home library celebrates the myriad 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 so that they'll be returned. Notes for the more serious collector are also included, along with descriptions of some especially interesting collections at The New York Public Library, relevant websites for additional information, and suggestions for further reading.