Three Mini-Rules of Thumb

So you can probably look forward to lots of nail-biting finales during your years to come in cataloging.

Mini Rule of Thumb #3

“When you give changes to your designer, about 10 percent of them won’t get done.”

This annoying little fact of life in cataloging can be especially frustrating to new catalogers, since it often feels like the designer is making your life hard out of sheer carelessness. Catalogers say things like, “I told that designer clearly and slowly exactly what to change, and he/she still didn’t do it!”