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==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
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- | === To-dos from Monday, 20 January 2014 === | + | {{ http:// |
- | == space == | + | 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. |
- | * cd/ | + | 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. |
- | * archival boxes as needed | + | --- //Armoracio " |
- | * **bookends** | + | </ |
- | * labels | + | |
- | == digital == | + | * FoAM Library: http:// |
+ | * Zotero online catalogue: http:// | ||
- | * check existing catalogue entries for errors and improvements | + | === Digital cataloguing: |
- | * tags and collections | + | |
- | * catalogue and library hints/ | + | |
- | * infographics for library guides | + | |
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- | {{http:// | + | |
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- | === Diary of an archivist === | + | |
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- | == Digital cataloguing: | + | |
We agreed to use the [[http:// | We agreed to use the [[http:// | ||
- | [[http:// | + | Zotero online group libraries would seem to offer a flexible |
- | == 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 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. | ||
- | == Shuffling and 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 sifted, sorted, and boxed by year for neat filing away on shelves. | ||
- | 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! | + | === Organisation: |
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- | == 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 many photocopied books or manuals, duplicates, looseleaf handouts that don't need to be kept. There are some notebooks and folios of apparent artistic effort. | + | |
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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. The physical part of the library could be split asunder, divided, spread to the winds and across numerous bookshelves, | + | |
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- | What are the implications? | + | |
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- | === Organisation | + | |
- separate the more from the less " | - separate the more from the less " | ||
- **periodicals** cover any more-or-less substantial publication issued periodically; | - **periodicals** cover any more-or-less substantial publication issued periodically; | ||
- | - 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 " | + | - 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 " |
- 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) | ||
- 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, and < |
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+ | === Zotero catalogue notes === | ||
+ | * 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/ | ||
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+ | // | ||
- | === General | + | === Ongoing |
- | * I have chosen to file books alphabetically by **name** of the first author/ | + | * in the case of books, |
- | * linking to/from the [[: | + | |
- | * Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. articles in journals) rather than whole issues; one solution is to catalogue them as " | + | * linking to/from the [[reading notes]] and [[https:// |
- | * I'm using the following format to note the individual issues of periodicals: | + | * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, |
- | * ISO 639-3 three letter codes for the '' | + | * 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: | ||
+ | * tags might be a good way to physically locate items on the shelf if there is a [[http:// | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * '' | ||
- | ==== Further | + | what is the motivation for the '' |
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+ | === To-dos === | ||
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+ | * sort and determine storage for ephemera | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | ||
+ | * cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | ||
+ | * 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 | ||
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+ | === New books ==== | ||
+ | - find an intersting book | ||
+ | - add to the 'book orders' | ||
+ | - buy it | ||
+ | - transfer to libray group once it arrives [ref] | ||
+ | - read (or otherwise absorb) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Further | ||
* distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) | * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) | ||
- | | + | * "The Little Library" |
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* https:// | * https:// | ||
* http:// | * http:// | ||
- | * collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts to physical items | + | |
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- | * http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ | + |