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- | === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | + | === To-dos from Monday, 20 January 2014 === |
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+ | * **bookends** | ||
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+ | == digital | ||
* check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements | * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements | ||
- | * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera | ||
* tags and collections | * tags and collections | ||
- | * catalogue and library hints | + | * catalogue and library hints/guides |
- | + | * infographics | |
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- | * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items | + | |
- | * propaganda sorting, organisation, | + | |
- | * cd/ | + | |
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- | * archival boxes as needed | + | |
- | * **bookends** (Michka?) | + | |
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- | * übercleanup | + | |
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After the heavy lifting of the initial pass, there remained what seemed to be an infinite regress of small items – journals, magazines, random books and journals that slipped through the dragnet, a vast pile of grey literature. And it was all a mess. I ripped everything off the shelves and out of the boxes 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 still somehow useable. I don't think this has been quite successful – but I think it's on the way. | After the heavy lifting of the initial pass, there remained what seemed to be an infinite regress of small items – journals, magazines, random books and journals that slipped through the dragnet, a vast pile of grey literature. And it was all a mess. I ripped everything off the shelves and out of the boxes 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 still somehow useable. I don't think this has been quite successful – but I think it's on the way. | ||
- | == Information | + | == Shuffling and 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 much that doesn' | ||
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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. How might the collection become more " | ||
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+ | == Disks == | ||
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+ | Zotero is not so good for cataloguing CDs, DVDs, and all the other miscellaneous stuff on disks. The " | ||
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+ | === Organisation | ||
- separate the more from the less " | - separate the more from the less " | ||
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- 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 notes === | === General notes === | ||
- | * 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: |
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- | === New books ==== | + | |
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- | - find an interesting book | + | |
- | - add to the 'book orders' | + | |
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==== Further entangling ==== | ==== Further entangling ==== | ||
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* http:// | * http:// | ||
* http:// | * 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 " |