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==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
- | (see also [[library notes]] for the [[foam library]] ) | ||
- | * scan | + | === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === |
- | * bibtex | + | |
- | * ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http:// | + | |
- | * zotero | + | |
- | * see also -> https:// | + | |
- | < | + | * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements |
+ | * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals and leave the remainder | ||
+ | * catalogue | ||
+ | * catalogue | ||
- | 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. | + | * going through |
- | --- //Armoracio " | + | * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items |
+ | * propaganda sorting, organisation, | ||
+ | * cd/dvd/floppydisk sorting, organisation, | ||
- | === Digital cataloguing === | + | * archival boxes as needed |
+ | * **bookends** (Michka?) | ||
- | * We agreed to use the [[http:// | + | * übercleanup |
- | * A second pass involved manually looking up the ISBN numbers from within the desktop application, | + | |
- | * A more time-consuming ongoing task will involve checking, verification and correction of the database. | + | {{http:// |
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+ | === Diary of an archivist === | ||
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+ | == Digital cataloguing: | ||
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+ | We agreed to use the [[http:// | ||
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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. | ||
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+ | == Sorting and consolidating: | ||
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+ | After the heavy lifting of the initial pass, there remained what seemed to be an infinite regress of small items – journals, magazines, random books and journals that slipped through the dragnet, a vast pile of grey literature. And it was all a mess. I ripped everything off the shelves and out of the boxes and dumped the lot on the floor. From there I attempted to reassemble the material into the most basic and easy-to-use categories that were still somehow useable. I don't think this has been quite successful – but I think it' | ||
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+ | == Information plumbing: January 2014 == | ||
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+ | In my absence over summer some amazing assistants tackled and substantially resolved the most serious nightmare of this library | ||
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+ | However, we must rally our efforts. The deluge of ephemera is unstoppable and will require ever-renewed vigilance to ensure that the forces of greyness do not completely overwhelm us. But do not despair – together we shall conquer! Per aspera ad astra! | ||
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+ | The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | ||
=== Organisation: | === Organisation: | ||
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- an A–Z **fiction** section (of mostly trade paperbacks, thanks to the N&M library bequest) | - an A–Z **fiction** section (of mostly trade paperbacks, thanks to the N&M library bequest) | ||
- an **ephemera** section, due to the vast quantity of brochures, leaflets, postcards, flyers, etc. that has accumulated; | - an **ephemera** section, due to the vast quantity of brochures, leaflets, postcards, flyers, etc. that has accumulated; | ||
- | - at any time, the library can expand or contract with **temporary autonomous subsections** (such as Luea's specialised (and largely German-language) section of all manner of medical, medicinal and metaphysical books, | + | - at any time, the library can expand or contract with **temporary autonomous subsections** (such as Luea's specialised (and largely German-language) section of all manner of medical, medicinal and metaphysical books) |
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+ | === Zotero catalogue notes === | ||
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+ | * need to decide on convention for the " | ||
+ | * either use ISO 639-3 three letter codes. multiple languages separated by commas (e.g '' | ||
+ | * or use the more expansive/ | ||
+ | * //(I've tended to favour the 3-letter codes.)// | ||
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+ | === General notes === | ||
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+ | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by **name** of the first author/ | ||
+ | * linking to/from the [[: | ||
+ | * often it's unavoidable that you'll have to manually enter and amend data in Zotero where automation fails: this can be time-consuming | ||
+ | * Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. articles in journals) rather than whole issues; | ||
+ | * I'm using the following format to note the individual issues of periodicals: | ||
+ | * tags might be a good way to physically locate items on the shelf if there is a [[http:// | ||
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+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
+ | - '' | ||
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+ | (The motivation for the '' | ||
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+ | === New books ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | - find an interesting book | ||
+ | - add to the 'book orders' | ||
+ | - buy it | ||
+ | - transfer to libray group once it arrives | ||
+ | - read (or otherwise absorb) | ||
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+ | ==== Further entangling ==== | ||
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+ | * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) | ||
+ | * ISBN -> BibTeX | ||
+ | * "The Little Library" | ||
+ | * https:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts to physical items http:// | ||
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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 | ||
- | === Ongoing notes and to-dos === | + | 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 |
- | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/ | + | --- //Armoracio " |
- | * sifting through the ephemera is going to be long and arduous | + | |
- | * 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, | + | |
- | * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, | + | |
- | * sort and determine storage for ephemera | + | |
- | * catalogue and shelve readers/ | + | |
- | * go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | + | |
- | * cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | + | |
- | * adding pdfs to the digital catalogue (where available/ | + | |
- | * cataloguing the journals/ | + | |
- | * significant pieces of ephemera, articles, etc. could be scanned and added as attachments to the Zotero references | + |