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--- library:cataloguing_notes [2014-01-09 17:37] – alkan
+++ library:cataloguing_notes [2014-01-10 12:07] – alkan
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 ==== Cataloguing Notes ====
-<blockquote>
-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.
+=== To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 ===
-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 below.
+  * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals and leave the remainder to the "assistants"
+  * catalogue tags and collections
+  * catalogue and library hints
+  * going through the huge boxes
+  * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items
+  * propaganda sorting, organisation, making space
+  * cd/dvd/floppydisk sorting, organisation, making space
- --- //Armoracio "Bud" Minuez, Archivist//
+  * archival boxes as needed
+  * bookends (Michka?)
-</blockquote>
+  * übercleanup
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   * I'm using the following format to note the individual issues of periodicals: **''year [volume:issue] additional info''** (additional info can be season/month(s), thematic name of the issue, etc.); using the notes field like this is a bit kludgy, but at least in this format they will sort by date and issue
   * tags might be a good way to physically locate items on the shelf if there is a [[http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/|controlled vocabulary]] for this purpose, e.g.:
     * ''fl-books''
-    * ''fl-periodicals''
+    * ''fl-cards-games''
-    * ''fl-periodicals-singleissue''
-    * ''fl-unperiodicals''
-    * ''fl-fiction''
-    * ''fl-oversize''
     * ''fl-ephemera''
-    * ''fl-ephemera-postcards''
     * ''fl-ephemera-brochures''
     * ''fl-ephemera-menus''
+    * ''fl-ephemera-postcards''
+    * ''fl-fiction''
+    * ''fl-oversize''
+    * ''fl-periodicals''
+    * ''fl-periodicals-singleissue''
+    * ''fl-unperiodicals''
-what is the motivation for the ''fl-'' prefix? "**F**oAM **L**ibrary" -- a way to uniquely distinguish this set of keywords from any others.
+what is the motivation for the ''fl-'' prefix? "FoAM Library" -- a way to uniquely distinguish this set of keywords as specific to this library.
-  * 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/permissible)
-  * significant pieces of ephemera, articles, etc. could be scanned and added as attachments to the Zotero references
 === New books ====
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     * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library
     * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/
+<blockquote>
+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.
+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 below.
+ --- //Armoracio "Bud" Minuez, Archivist//</blockquote>