Re: cover image and amazon

From: john g marr <jmarr_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:33:38 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Ross Singer wrote:

> How is the cover image any less informational than the extent or the
> subject headings/classification?

  It's not keyword-searchable? :)

  Seriously, though, the cover is less of a problem that the jacket, which 
is (at least with fiction) designed to be titillating, not informational. 
In fact, you could be arrested for titillating a patron in the stacks, 
couldn't you?  :)

  PS: "GMAIL", eh? Heh, heh, heh... See the comments following the article 
at: 
http://www.alternet.org/rights/155479/the_terrifying_ways_google_is_destroying_your_privacy/comments/

Cheers!

jgm

  John G. Marr
  Cataloger
  CDS, UL
  Univ. of New Mexico
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