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cataloguing_notes [2013-06-20 07:45] – armormin | cataloguing_notes [2013-06-20 11:14] – armormin |
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* zotero | * zotero |
* see also -> https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items | * see also -> https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items |
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| <blockquote>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. |
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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 "Bud" Minuez//</blockquote> |
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=== Digital cataloguing === | === Digital cataloguing === |
=== Ongoing notes and 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, conference papers, extended brochures, etc. etc. which are not quite periodicals and not quite books: I'm struggling to separate these from the deluge of ephemera and can only conclude that this part of the cycle could do with a //**__substantial <del>bonfire of the vanities</del> selective redistribution__**// |
There are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, conference papers, extended brochures, etc. etc. which are not quite periodicals and not quite books: I'm struggling to separate these from the deluge of ephemera and can only conclude that this part of the cycle could do with a //**__substantial <del>bonfire of the vanities</del> selective redistribution__**// | |
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:41:08 PM\\ | |
* sort and determine storage for ephemera | * sort and determine storage for ephemera |
* catalogue and shelve readers/yearbooks/conference papers/etc. | * catalogue and shelve readers/yearbooks/conference papers/etc. |
* cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | * cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue |
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=== Preterite prolegomena === | * cataloguing the journals/magazines: Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. particular articles) rather than whole issues of periodicals: perhaps both can be done, including significant references |
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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. | |
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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 "Bud" Minuez// | |