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| library:cataloguing_notes [2014-01-13 18:48] – alkan | library:cataloguing_notes [2014-01-16 09:59] – alkan |
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| * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements | * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements |
| * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals | * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera |
| * tags and collections | * tags and collections |
| * catalogue and library hints | * catalogue and library hints |
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| * going through the huge boxes | * <del>going through</del> labelling the huge boxes |
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| * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items | * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items |
| We agreed to use the [[http://www.zotero.org/|Zotero]] desktop and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwib3JnLmFsZS5zY2FubmVyLnpvdGVybyJd|mobile]] apps to make a first pass of cataloguing FoAM's small but esoteric library. Aside from a few annoying glitches, we were able to go through the library quite rapidly, scanning the barcodes with the [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero&hl=en|mobile app]] while setting aside those items that could not be scanned, or needed special attention (such as all the periodicals, magazines, etc.). A second pass involved manually looking up the ISBN numbers from within the [[http://www.zotero.org/download/|desktop application]], or searching online for the bibliographic data via [[http://www.worldcat.org/|WorldCat]] or similar and importing these citations into Zotero via the [[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zotero-connector/ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc?hl=en-US|browser plugin]], for the items that had no barcodes or could not otherwise be scanned. | We agreed to use the [[http://www.zotero.org/|Zotero]] desktop and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwib3JnLmFsZS5zY2FubmVyLnpvdGVybyJd|mobile]] apps to make a first pass of cataloguing FoAM's small but esoteric library. Aside from a few annoying glitches, we were able to go through the library quite rapidly, scanning the barcodes with the [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero&hl=en|mobile app]] while setting aside those items that could not be scanned, or needed special attention (such as all the periodicals, magazines, etc.). A second pass involved manually looking up the ISBN numbers from within the [[http://www.zotero.org/download/|desktop application]], or searching online for the bibliographic data via [[http://www.worldcat.org/|WorldCat]] or similar and importing these citations into Zotero via the [[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zotero-connector/ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc?hl=en-US|browser plugin]], for the items that had no barcodes or could not otherwise be scanned. |
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| 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. | [[http://www.zotero.org/support/groups|Zotero online group libraries]] would seem to offer some flexible possibilities for extending our cataloguing initiative into a collective, inter-organisational library database. Moreover, since Zotero catalogues can be exported in several formats (BibTex export works very well, for instance), if we decide to use another system in future it should be quite easy to transfer the database over. |
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| == Sorting and consolidating: June 2013 == | == Sorting and consolidating: June 2013 == |
| - separate the more from the less "substantial" -- in practice, **books** constitute the major substantial category | - separate the more from the less "substantial" -- in practice, **books** constitute the major substantial category |
| - **periodicals** cover any more-or-less substantial publication issued periodically; but I would avoid mixing these with the ephemera | - **periodicals** cover any more-or-less substantial publication issued periodically; but I would avoid mixing these with the ephemera |
| - 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 "Conference proceedings" | - 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 "Conference proceedings" |
| - 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) |
| * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library | * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library |
| * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/ | * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/ |
| * collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts to physical items http://grr.aaaaarg.org/txt/ | * collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts to physical items |
| | * http://grr.aaaaarg.org/txt/ |
| | * http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ |
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