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library:cataloguing_notes [2014-01-22 12:17] alkanlibrary:cataloguing_notes [2020-06-05 22:30] (current) – old revision restored (2014-09-12 02:11) nik
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-=== To-dos from Monday, 20 January 2014 ===+=== To-dos from Monday, 27 January 2014 ===
  
-== space ==+  * **bookends** 
 +  * <del>sort the new pile of ephemera</del> 
 +  * <del>dividers: A-Z, magazines and journals, etc.</del> 
 +  * N & M shelf of randomness, boxes, etc.
  
-  * cd/dvd/floppydisk sorting, discarding, organisation 
  
-  * archival boxes as needed +  * <del>cd/dvd/floppydisk sorting, discarding, organisation</del> needs further review
-  * **bookends** +
-  * labels+
  
 == digital == == digital ==
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-== Shelves of randomness; walking libraries ==+== Shelves of randomness == 
 + 
 +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 much that doesn't need to be kept. 
 + 
 +== Walking libraries ==
  
-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, duplicateslooseleaf handouts that don't need to be keptThere are some notebooks and folios of apparent artistic effort.+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. How might the collection become more "mobile"? Firstthe excess could be discardedMultiple redundant copies, irrelevant material, //useless ephemera//… But second, the digital catalogue might become much more important: metadata, notes, comments, connections in the database, but also digitised copies.
  
-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, basements, cellars and larders over the world.+== Disks ==
  
-What are the implications? How might the collection become more "mobile"? First, the excess could be discarded. Multiple redundant copiesirrelevant material, //useless ephemera//… But second, the digital catalogue might become much more important: metadata, notes, comments, connections in the database, but also digitised copiesAlthough this opens a whole can of worms with all the (active or passive) copyright issues+Zotero is not so good for cataloguing CDs, DVDs, and all the other miscellaneous kinds of disks out there. The "Diskssection in any case is close to redundant, as most of this material can be archived on the serversand if necessary catalogued using more appropriate methodsSo now there's another shelf of stuff that needs "further review"
  
 === Organisation and rationale: the sections === === Organisation and rationale: the sections ===
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     * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library     * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library
     * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/     * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/
-    collection of etexts we could upload as adjuncts to physical items  +  etext collections we could use to source adjuncts of the physical items  
-      * http://grr.aaaaarg.org/txt/ +    * http://grr.aaaaarg.org/txt/ 
-      * http://gen.lib.rus.ec/+    * http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
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