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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, and a vast pile of grey literature. And it was all a mess. | ||
+ | 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. | ||
+ | === Information plumbing: December 2013 === | ||
=== Organisation: | === Organisation: | ||
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- 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, and < | + | - 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) |
=== Zotero catalogue notes === | === Zotero catalogue notes === | ||
+ | |||
* need to decide on convention for the " | * need to decide on convention for the " | ||
* either use ISO 639-3 three letter codes. multiple languages separated by commas (e.g '' | * either use ISO 639-3 three letter codes. multiple languages separated by commas (e.g '' | ||
* or use the more expansive/ | * or use the more expansive/ | ||
- | + | * // | |
- | // | + | |
- | === Ongoing | + | === General |
- | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/ | + | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them 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 |
- | * manually | + | * Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. articles in journals) rather than whole issues; one solution is to catalogue them as " |
- | * 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: | * 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:// | * tags might be a good way to physically locate items on the shelf if there is a [[http:// | ||
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what is the motivation for the '' | what is the motivation for the '' | ||
- | === To-dos === | ||
- | |||
- | * sort and determine storage for ephemera | ||
- | * < | ||
* 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 | ||
* add PDFs to the digital catalogue (where available/ | * add PDFs to the digital catalogue (where available/ | ||
- | * < | ||
* significant pieces of ephemera, articles, etc. could be scanned and added as attachments to the Zotero references | * significant pieces of ephemera, articles, etc. could be scanned and added as attachments to the Zotero references | ||
=== New books ==== | === New books ==== | ||
- | | + | |
- | - add to the 'book orders' | + | |
+ | - add to the 'book orders' | ||
- buy it | - buy it | ||
- | - transfer to libray group once it arrives | + | - transfer to libray group once it arrives |
- read (or otherwise absorb) | - read (or otherwise absorb) | ||
- | ==== Further | + | ==== Further |
* distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) | * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) |