Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of notes and annotation. Notes may amplify or qualify a formal description, explain a heading, or indicate the nature and scope of a work, and its literary form. Annotation can be defined as the compilation of notes on a book's history, subject, and intention. The purposes of annotation is to supplement, explain, and if necessary, to correct the details on the publisher's title-page. The chapter also discusses a number of writers who have stressed that criticism should be excluded from annotations. All annotations should be concise, a maximum of 30 words having been suggested, but longer annotations may be provided in booklists. The three Birmingham libraries, regarding the catalog as essentially a finding list, do not do a great deal of annotation. There is little annotation in the British Institute of Management Library's catalog, but the contents of conference proceedings are listed exhaustively.
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