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==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
- | (see also [[library notes]] ) | + | (see also [[library notes]] for the [[foam library]] ) |
* scan | * scan | ||
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* zotero | * zotero | ||
* see also -> https:// | * see also -> https:// | ||
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+ | < | ||
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+ | A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven to follow these principles in approaching the sometimes daunting task of coming to terms with, managing and (re)organising the FoAM archive. | ||
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+ | --- //Armoracio " | ||
=== Digital cataloguing === | === Digital cataloguing === | ||
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* Zotero online group libraries would seem to offer a flexible option for the idea of extending our cataloguing initiative into a collective, inter-organisational library database for some fairly unusual and rare books. For now, FoAM's library can now be found [[https:// | * Zotero online group libraries would seem to offer a flexible option for the idea of extending our cataloguing initiative into a collective, inter-organisational library database for some fairly unusual and rare books. For now, FoAM's library can now be found [[https:// | ||
- | === Organisation: | + | === Organisation: |
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- | * __periodicals__ | + | |
- | * an __audiovisual__ | + | |
- | * an __ephemera__ | + | - an **audiovisual** |
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- | | + | - an **ephemera** |
- | * Nik and Maja's oscillatory home/FoAM section of mainly fictional items which, one day, they will need to decide whether to amalgamate into the FoAM library proper, or reattach and merge with their own quasi-independent, | + | |
- | | + | === Ongoing notes === |
- | * sifting through the ephemera | + | |
- | * linking to/from the [[reading notes]] and [[https:// | + | |
+ | * sifting through the ephemera | ||
+ | * linking to/from the [[reading notes]] and [[https:// | ||
* manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, | * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, | ||
+ | * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, | ||
+ | * Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. articles in journals) rather than whole issues; one solution is to catalogue them as " | ||
+ | * I'm using the following format to note the individual issues of periodicals: | ||
+ | * tags might be a good way to locate items on the shelf if there is a [[http:// | ||
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- | + | === To-dos === | |
- | === Ongoing notes and to-dos === | + | |
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- | Friday, 14 June 2013 3:38:53 PM\\ | + | |
- | There are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, | + | |
* sort and determine storage for ephemera | * sort and determine storage for ephemera | ||
- | * catalogue and shelve readers/ | + | * <del>catalogue and shelve readers/ |
* go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | * go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | ||
+ | * cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | ||
+ | * add PDFs to the digital catalogue (where available/ | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * significant pieces of ephemera, articles, etc. could be scanned and added as attachments to the Zotero references | ||
- | === Preterite prolegomena === | ||
- | This particular collection, where each book can in principle lurk at the interstices of the connection of everything to everything else, demonstrates most acutely the issue with filing items according to a single -- or even predominant -- topic or subject area. At the same time, with items digitally catalogued and instantly searchable by any field, the physical arrangement becomes less critical for indicating an item's subject, class, or other characteristic. The library is also small and seems unlikely to grow rapidly in the foreseeable future. Therefore, after some (uneven and random) thought, and a close perusal of [[library notes|existing notes]] on this question, I decided to take the semi-organic organisational approach as indicated. | + | ==== Further Entangling ==== |
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- | A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven to follow these principles in approaching the sometimes daunting task of coming to terms with, managing and (re)organising the FoAM archive. | + | |
- | --- //Armoracio " | + | * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) |
+ | * "The Little Library" | ||
+ | * https:// | ||
+ | * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/ |