Oh. That’s usually just called the copyright page. But if it has other info, like details about the typeface, and the publisher’s logo, it’s sometimes called the colophon page.
It’s almost always on the backside of the title page, and therefore often called “reverse title page.” Since it’s usually across from the dedication, it’s one image to take a picture of both.
It could be as simple as someone studying how dedications have changed in wording and person over time.
Maybe it’s someone being paid to double check every detail, prior to it being submitted…somewhere or other?
Young Republican.
I would expect the info on the verso of the title page (that’s what I learned to call it in library school back in the previous millennium) would be in the library’s online catalog. Maybe someone linked the book to a less complete record, which happens occasionally, especially if the book was purchased back in the days before we just got the records from the vendor and downloaded the whole order at once. It’s an interesting combination of the way things were done in the old days (getting the publishing info straight from the book) and the modern (taking a picture with one’s phone).
Speak of the devil. My wife found a website that generates endnotes etc in a variety of formats for papers given the DoI number. I’m writing some chapters for her, and I’m about to try this out.
Another possibility for the situation in the OP is that the student wants to look up biographical details on the dedicatee. But I suspect getting info from the indica is more likely.
A suspicious professor might tell his students that because of rampant AI hallucinations, he’s only going to accept bibliographies that include images of the copyright info of real books (I’m not sure if that idea makes sense - but a suspicious enough professor might try it)
I sometimes used to give an assignment that required reading physical sources from before 1900 from the university’s stacks. I required students to include a photocopy of the data page of the book or article, including the abstract (if an article) or the jacket copy or section of the introduction that explained what the book was about (if a book). Otherwise, I got Wikipedia plagiarism or similar with no evidence the student had at least put their hands on the thing.
Yeah, that’ll work.
Photocopiers cost money, money you could spend on beer. They are a student, after all.
True. I currently have a picture of chicken salad on my phone to remind me to buy some more chicken salad when I go to the store.
At this point I’m mystified at what the OP might have been thinking.
I’m in love with the dolphenguin logo. It’s just so perfectly messed up, it’s adorable!
Me too. And I love that Mifflin is misspelled.