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==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
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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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=== To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | === To-dos from Friday, 10 January 2014 === | ||
- | * preliminary pass on all remaining ephemera: extract books, magazines, journals and leave the remainder to the " | + | |
- | * keywording + gardening | + | |
+ | * tags and collections | ||
+ | * catalogue and library hints | ||
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+ | * going through the huge boxes | ||
* sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items | * sorting and making space for cards, games, and other weird items | ||
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* archival boxes as needed | * archival boxes as needed | ||
+ | * **bookends** (Michka?) | ||
* übercleanup | * übercleanup | ||
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=== Diary of an archivist === | === Diary of an archivist === | ||
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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, | + | After the heavy lifting of the initial pass, there remained what seemed to be an infinite regress of small items – journals, magazines, random |
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- | 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' | + | |
== Information plumbing: January 2014 == | == Information plumbing: January 2014 == | ||
- | 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 sorted. | + | 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, |
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+ | However, we must rally our efforts. The deluge of ephemera | ||
The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | ||
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- | === General notes and to-dos | + | === General notes === |
* 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/ | ||
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* 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:// | ||
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=== New books ==== | === New books ==== | ||
- find an interesting book | - find an interesting book | ||
- | - 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 | ||
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* https:// | * https:// | ||
* http:// | * http:// | ||
+ | * collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts to physical items 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 " |