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=== To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | ||
+ | * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements | ||
* preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals and leave the remainder to the assistants | * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals and leave the remainder to the assistants | ||
* catalogue tags and collections | * catalogue tags and collections | ||
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== Sorting and consolidating: | == Sorting and consolidating: | ||
- | After the heavy lifting of the initial pass, there remained what seemed to be an infinite regress of small items – journals, magazines, random that slipped through the dragnet, | + | After the heavy lifting of the initial pass, there remained what seemed to be an infinite regress of small items – journals, magazines, random |
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- | I ripped everything off the shelves 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 workable. I don't think this has been quite successful, but it' | + | |
== 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. |