There are few occasions when digitised material does not make it into a repository and remains sitting in the staging area. There are usually legitimate reasons for the delay and sooner or later the project will be picked up. This particular project contains images that were digitised for publication. The book is out, most of the digitized images too, but there are still some that did not make it into the repository yet.
I would like to create a collection of images of front-covers and title pages from this project, and look at them as a cultural artifact in their own right, rather than just a manifestation of a book.
The collection may offer several ways to be browsed - based on the language or script used, date of publication, authors of the books, and creators of the book design. The subject depicted on the front cover, if any, certainly should also be a descriptive facet, and a particularly suitable for tagging. Many of these books and their covers had a message to convey to those who took the book into their hands. The message of the books has certainly changed and users can access it from different angles now; the same book can be a piece of Bolshevik propaganda for some, for others just a popular children's book.
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