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==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
- | (see also [[library notes]] for the [[foam library]] ) | ||
- | * scan | + | === To-dos from Monday, 20 January 2014 === |
- | * bibtex | + | |
- | * ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http:// | + | |
- | * zotero | + | |
- | * see also -> https:// | + | |
- | <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 (including tags), 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. | + | * <del>cd/ |
+ | * **bookends** | ||
- | A library -- including its physical and digital | + | == digital |
- | --- //Armoracio " | + | * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements |
+ | * tags and collections | ||
+ | * catalogue and library hints/guides | ||
+ | * infographics for library guides | ||
- | === Digital cataloguing === | + | {{http:// |
- | * We agreed to use the [[http:// | + | === Diary of an archivist === |
- | * 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. | + | |
- | * 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: | + | == Digital cataloguing: |
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+ | We agreed to use the [[http:// | ||
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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's on the way. | ||
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+ | == Shuffling and 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 – the ephemera. Thanks to them, this mass of the greyest of grey literature has now been sifted, sorted, and boxed by year for neat filing away on shelves. | ||
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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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+ | == Shelves of randomness; walking libraries == | ||
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+ | An entire shelf of randomness has accumulated. It's not that this randomness can't be accommodated somewhere in the library, but rather, whether it should. It all comes back to sifting and sorting stuff out. **There could be critical documents in this shelf.** Yet there also appears to be much that doesn' | ||
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+ | We presently have the luxury of a dedicated library space (even if it often just ends up as a storeroom), but in coming years this will by no means be guaranteed. How might the collection become more " | ||
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+ | == Disks == | ||
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+ | Zotero is not so good for cataloguing CDs, DVDs, and all the other miscellaneous stuff on disks. The " | ||
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+ | === Organisation | ||
- separate the more from the less " | - separate the more from the less " | ||
- **periodicals** cover any more-or-less substantial publication issued periodically; | - **periodicals** cover any more-or-less substantial publication issued periodically; | ||
- | - a **conference proceedings** section that incorporates all types of items such as exhibition openings, reports, yearbooks, etc. that are semiperiodical: I'll probably catalogue these with the canned Zotero item type as " | + | - an **unperiodicals** section that incorporates all types of items such as exhibition openings, reports, yearbooks, etc. that are semi- or un-periodical: I'll probably catalogue these with the canned Zotero item type as " |
- an **audiovisual** section at some point | - an **audiovisual** section at some point | ||
- 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, and < | + | - 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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- | === Ongoing | + | === General |
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- | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/ | + | |
- | * 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, | + | |
- | * 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 === | + | |
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- | * sort and determine storage for ephemera | + | |
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- | * 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 | + | |
- | === New books ==== | + | * I have chosen to file books alphabetically by **name** of the first author/ |
- | - find an intersting book | + | |
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- | - read (or otherwise absorb) | + | |
- | ==== Further | + | ==== Further |
* distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) | * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) | ||
- | * "The Little Library" | + | |
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* https:// | * https:// | ||
* http:// | * http:// | ||
+ | * collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts to physical items | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// |