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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.+{{ http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3672/11099770135_8c1b877294_c.jpg}}
  
- --- //Armoracio "Bud" Minuez, Archivist//+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.
  
 +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 "Bud" Minuez//
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 +  * FoAM Library: http://fo.am/library/
 +  * Zotero online catalogue: http://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library
  
 === Digital cataloguing: first steps, April 2013 === === Digital cataloguing: first steps, April 2013 ===
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   * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/editor/etc., failing that by title   * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/editor/etc., failing that by title
   * <del>sifting through the ephemera is going to be long and arduous</del> much easier thanks to some remarkable assistants   * <del>sifting through the ephemera is going to be long and arduous</del> much easier thanks to some remarkable assistants
-  * linking to/from the [[:reading_notes]] and [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|catalogued items]] may prove interesting and useful, particularly as files can be attached to Zotero items: see [[:anthropological_research_on_hazards_and_disasters|this example]]+  * linking to/from the [[reading notes]] and [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|catalogued items]] may prove interesting and useful, particularly as files can be attached to Zotero items: see [[anthropological_research_on_hazards_and_disasters|this example]]
   * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, but it is very time-consuming   * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, but it is very time-consuming
   * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, conference papers, extended brochures, etc. etc. which are not quite periodicals and not quite books: I'm struggling to separate these from the deluge of ephemera and can only conclude that this part of the cycle could do with a //**__substantial <del>bonfire of the vanities</del> selective redistribution__**//   * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, conference papers, extended brochures, etc. etc. which are not quite periodicals and not quite books: I'm struggling to separate these from the deluge of ephemera and can only conclude that this part of the cycle could do with a //**__substantial <del>bonfire of the vanities</del> selective redistribution__**//
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   * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries)   * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries)
-  * ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http://www.ottobib.com/ and http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/ +  * "The Little Library" project for CC digital collections.
-  * "The Little Library" project for CC digital collections+
     * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library     * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library
     * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/     * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/
 +  * ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http://www.ottobib.com/ and http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/
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