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==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
- | (see also [[library notes]] ) | + | (see also [[library notes]] for the [[foam library]] ) |
* scan | * scan | ||
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* zotero | * zotero | ||
* see also -> https:// | * see also -> https:// | ||
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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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+ | --- //Armoracio " | ||
=== Digital cataloguing === | === Digital cataloguing === | ||
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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. For now, FoAM's library can now be found [[https:// | * 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. For now, FoAM's library can now be found [[https:// | ||
- | === Organisation: | + | === Organisation: |
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- | * separate the more from the less " | + | |
- | * __periodicals__ cover any more-or-less substantial publication issued periodically; | + | |
- | * an __audiovisual__ section at some point | + | |
- | * 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__; | + | |
- | * Luea's specialised (and largely German-language) section of all manner of medical, medicinal and metaphysical books, and | + | |
- | * Nik and Maja's oscillatory home/FoAM section of mainly fictional items which, one day, they will need to decide whether to amalgamate into the FoAM library proper, or reattach and merge with their own quasi-independent, | + | |
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- | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/ | + | |
- | * sifting through the ephemera will be long and arduous | + | |
- | * linking to/from the [[reading notes]] and [[https:// | + | |
- | * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, | + | |
+ | - separate the more from the less " | ||
+ | - **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: | ||
+ | - an **audiovisual** section at some point | ||
+ | - 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; | ||
+ | - 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, and < | ||
=== Ongoing notes and to-dos === | === Ongoing notes and to-dos === | ||
- | Friday, 14 June 2013 3:38:53 PM\\ | + | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/ |
- | There are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, | + | * sifting through the ephemera is going to be long and arduous |
+ | * linking to/from the [[reading notes]] and [[https:// | ||
+ | * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, | ||
+ | * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, | ||
+ | * 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: | ||
- | Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:41:08 PM\\ | ||
* sort and determine storage for ephemera | * sort and determine storage for ephemera | ||
* catalogue and shelve readers/ | * catalogue and shelve readers/ | ||
* go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | * go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | ||
* cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | * cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | ||
- | + | * adding pdfs to the digital catalogue | |
- | === Preterite prolegomena === | + | * cataloguing |
- | + | * significant pieces of ephemera, articles, etc. could be scanned | |
- | This particular collection, where each book can in principle lurk at the interstices of the connection of everything | + | |
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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 | + | |
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- | --- //Armoracio " | + |