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- | === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | + | === To-dos from Monday, 20 January 2014 === |
- | * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements | + | == space == |
- | * 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 | + | |
- | | + | * cd/ |
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- | * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items | + | |
- | * propaganda sorting, organisation, | + | |
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* archival boxes as needed | * archival boxes as needed | ||
- | * **bookends** | + | * **bookends** |
- | | + | == digital == |
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+ | * tags and collections | ||
+ | * catalogue and library hints/ | ||
+ | * infographics for library guides | ||
{{http:// | {{http:// | ||
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We agreed to use the [[http:// | We agreed to use the [[http:// | ||
- | Zotero online group libraries would seem to offer a flexible | + | [[http:// |
== 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 |
- | 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's better than before. | + | == Shuffling and information |
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- | == Information | + | |
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. | 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! | 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! | ||
- | The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | + | {{: |
- | === Organisation: | + | == 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 many photocopied books or manuals, duplicates, looseleaf handouts that don't need to be kept. There are some notebooks and folios of apparent artistic effort. | ||
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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. The physical part of the library could be split asunder, divided, spread to the winds and across numerous bookshelves, | ||
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+ | What are the implications? | ||
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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) | - 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/ | ||
- | * // | ||
- | === General | + | === General |
- | * in the case of books, | + | * I have chosen to file books alphabetically by **name** of the first author/ |
* linking to/from the [[: | * 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; one solution is to catalogue them as " | * 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: | + | * 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:// | + | * ISO 639-3 three letter codes for the '' |
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- | (The motivation for the '' | + | |
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- | === New books ==== | + | |
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- | - find an interesting book | + | |
- | - add to the 'book orders' | + | |
- | - buy it | + | |
- | - transfer to libray group once it arrives | + | |
- | - read (or otherwise absorb) | + | |
==== Further entangling ==== | ==== Further entangling ==== | ||
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* https:// | * https:// | ||
* http:// | * http:// | ||
- | + | * collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts | |
- | + | * http://grr.aaaaarg.org/txt/ | |
- | < | + | * http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ |
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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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