@article{bibcite_8255, author = {Paola Puglisi}, title = {"The Day is Not Yet Come...": Book-Jackets in Library Catalogs}, abstract = {

In 1971 the eminent American scholar G. Thomas Tanselle wrote: {\textquotedblleft}the day has not yet come when one can learn anything of a library{\textquoteright}s holdings of jackets by consulting its catalogue.{\textquotedblright} Forty-four years later, library catalogs still do not allow that. Book-jackets, whose {\textquotedblleft}original sin{\textquotedblright} is their being physically separate from the book, are nevertheless essential documents for the history of publishing. This article aims to show the necessity for access to the information about a single book{\textquoteright}s book-jacket directly from the library catalog; it considers the reasons why catalogers usually {\textquotedblleft}distrust{\textquotedblright} book-jackets; and it aims to determine whether there is any change in attitude about taking book-jackets into account in cataloging.

}, year = {2015}, journal = {Cataloging \& Classification Quarterly}, volume = {53}, pages = {368-381}, language = {English}, }