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| ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
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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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| - | 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. | ||
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| === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | ||
| - | * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals and leave the remainder to the "assistants" | + | |
| - | * keywording + gardening | + | |
| + | * catalogue tags and collections | ||
| + | * catalogue and library hints | ||
| * going through the huge boxes | * going through the huge boxes | ||
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| * archival boxes as needed | * archival boxes as needed | ||
| + | * **bookends** (Michka?) | ||
| * übercleanup | * übercleanup | ||
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| === Diary of an archivist === | === Diary of an archivist === | ||
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| == Information plumbing: January 2014 == | == Information plumbing: January 2014 == | ||
| - | 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 sorted. | + | 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, |
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| + | However, we must rally our efforts. The deluge of ephemera | ||
| The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | ||
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| - | === General | + | === General |
| * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by **name** of the first author/ | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by **name** of the first author/ | ||
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| * I'm using the following format to note the individual issues of periodicals: | * 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:// | * tags might be a good way to physically locate items on the shelf if there is a [[http:// | ||
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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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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | --- //Armoracio " | ||
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