Mr. Kozloff annotates his choices with stimulating labels, well worth reading, and one of the best catalog essays I've read all year.
This year Facets' 60-page bests catalog, drawn from its main catalog of around 40,000 titles, has 32 lists, among them the 17 best pacifist films.
He is working with the Art Institute of Chicago to develop a platform that can combine the best printed catalogs with search and other interactive tools.
He has one of the best song catalogs in dancehall reggae history, but on Saturday he used his roaring voice sparingly, letting the backup singers deliver many of the melodies.
"Our aim is to sell great tablets connected to our best content catalog and high-quality bookstore services we've done, but do so without the sizable upfront risk," William J. Lynch Jr., Barnes & Noble's chief executive, said on a call with analysts.
Even less obvious cases like Amazon, where user annotation makes for the best product catalog in the world, and Google, whose search index and ad auction are both driven by user participation, show the power that comes from harnessing the collective activity of everyone who uses the service.
For nearly 20 years, White, a New Yorker editor who gardened on the coast of Maine, and Lawrence, a newspaper columnist in Charlotte, N.C., exchanged letters that recorded a blossoming friendship while holding forth on topics like the best seed catalogs, their favorite bulbs and above all the ardors of their gardens.
This brought US sales of the album to 688,000 copies, making it the best selling catalog album of 2008.
The best available catalog of structural variants in 18 laboratory inbred strains (Yalcin et al. 2011) has limited coverage of regions rich in segmental duplications (including our cold regions) due to the inherent difficulty in accurately aligning short reads to repeated sequences.
