#cataloguing

[pyjamacryptid]

Feeling like the ultimate nerd niche right now. I’m studying information science, specifically cataloguing, while in a library. Immersive experience. Like a 4D movie.

Self-portrait on Lined Notebook Paper, c. 2023

#ren rambles #library #libraries #information science #library and information science #cataloguing #my art #ren doodles #doodle #doodling

[oneluckylibrarian]

Spicy opinion: no academic papers should include more than five* authors. I do not want to have to type names for 20+ minutes during original cataloguing processes**.

*Yes, I know that this is an arbitrary number and some projects require larger teams. My hands just hurt. **The whole academic publishing/funding/careers system needs an overhaul because it is directly contributing to the volume of co-authors on papers as people NEED to publish regularly*** otherwise they can't access the funding or career opportunities to actually get things done.

***Publishing is expensive, it makes sense to spread that cost across as many people as possible, especially when you're all stuck needing to publish to keep your jobs and/or funding; plus, it provides networking opportunities.

I understand all of these things, but again: there shouldn't need to be so many authors on the one academic paper.

#academia #cataloguing #librarianship

[khymeira]

Today the black sleeves were rolled up, revealing corded, copper-brown forearms on display. The meeting was whatever, smart tagging, bulk injectors and Ad%be integration whatever the fuck.

But I've been cataloguing his palette in swathes. Ngl, lots of compelling colour sampling going on between my ears, lately.

The tops of my hands are a medium brown, and there's a softer chromatic demarcation where my palms begin; something of a beige in temperate weather I guess

His palms are the same.

He gesticulates with large, slender hands. Brown, copper, bronze hands. Nails clean in a melanated neutral for yet I've no hex colour. In the air, they carve out the runes of his thoughts—clever questions I didn’t think to ask; rubberducking devOps or wandering over to my desk to talk shop about graphic design or cable splitters or our favourite pepper sauces

He's long ago embraced his greys and silvers; there's still more pepper of his youth in there but the salt. Styled with a touch of Don Draper, if dude had a skin fade.

His brows descend in an angular point towards dark eyes, which lend a perpetually sharkish glint to his face, and an honest TO god scar bisects the right one. Better than any clipper job. I'll ask about it eventually

Jokes come easy to him, so he laughs a lot. His incisors have that sort of hang that give his smiles a bit of fang and he can never seem to get a clean shave.

That shit just be interesting is all

#Cataloguing

[u-mspcoll]

Salonique: type de vieux juif. U-M Library Special Collections Research Center DS 135 .G72 T41 T97 1907 

Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Salonique, type de vieux juif. Read more!

#jewish salonica postcard collection #postcards #sephardim #jewish salonica #Salonica #Sephardi #sephardic #Jewish Heritage Collection #jewish heritage #historical photos #historical photographs #photographs #photography #special collections #libraries #libraries and archives #special collections libraries #cataloging #Cataloguing

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

Gotta love cataloging sometimes

Caption of a postcard from the Mexican Revolution w/ a photo of a dead soldier on it: "that's a real dead body!" Yeah?? It sure is?? Bestie whoever you're showing this to probably lived through the American Civil War and/or is living through World War I I think they believe you

And another one (more dead soldiers): "kisses 🥰🥰 from your pookums!! <3 <3" sent to a woman in fucking Cornwall England

#i get The Reasons why people did that #(photography recently becoming accessible and real-photographic postcards being A New(ish) Thing) #(esp war photography and the concept of being able to actually *show* people around the world EXACTLY what's happening around you) #but like. Geoffrey we could do without the war tourism please and thank you #people are fighting a full-blown revolution. you're in a war zone. stop being Silly Goofy before your Silly Goofy ass gets riddled with lead #these are not the first postcards w/ dead bodies on them nor will they be the last #(items from/about the Mexican Revolution is one of my workplace's biggest collections) #i might be paraphrasing the second one a liiiiitle bit #he didnt say pookums but that was def the vibe #im not. like. angry. mostly just frustrated and a bit nauseous #other highlights (/s) from this batch include a white man posing with child soldiers #and a slur i didn't know existed until i got Bad Vibes from the word and looked it up to make sure #cataloguing #digital collections #libraries #archiving #metadata #jay rambles #my post

[thepotentialof2007]

Over the past several months, Anna’s Archive has been secretly scraping WorldCat, the world’s largest book metadata database.

WorldCat is run by the non-profit organization OCLC and works with tens of thousands of libraries globally. Its database is proprietary and not freely available but Anna’s Archive managed to bypass the restrictions, to make their own copy freely available.

“Even though OCLC is a non-profit, their business model requires protecting their database. Well, we’re sorry to say, friends at OCLC, we’re giving it all away,” Anna’s Archive notes.

PS: We do want to give a genuine shout-out to the Worldcat team. Even though it was a small tragedy that your data was locked up, you did an amazing job at getting 30,000 libraries on board to share their metadata with you. As with many of our releases, we could not have done it without the decades of hard work you put into building the collections that we now liberate. Truly: thank you.

The meta-search engine says it managed to scrape a staggering three terabytes of metadata. The dataset includes 1.3 billion unique IDs that, after removing duplicates and other noise, equate to 700 million unique records.

_

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OCLC

Internet Archive: Syncing Catalogs with thousands of Libraries in 120 Countries through OCLC

#anna's archive #cataloguing #metadata #oclc #worldcat #open access #libraries

[kimboatfloats]

Today’s weeded book was a doozy. The title — intriguing. Very gothic romance and the art style screams Italy countryside. Maybe France.

It was first published in 1978 with this one a reprint in 1992. Could be interesting, right?

Back cover:

‘Where do you live?’ asked Paul.

‘In the big White House on the hill,’ said Maria. ‘Where do you live?’

‘In the little brown house near the market,’ said Paul.

They laughed. But Paul was sad. The house in the hill was big and important.

Maria was rich and he was poor. And Paul was in love.

Riveting. Also fun facts, there’s an audio cassette available for this book.

Please note, I am not making fun of this book for being a beginning level reader. I think these readers are important because they offer content to adults learning to read or learning a different language that is something other than children’s books

I am, however, totally making fun of the content.

This book was absolute trash. Unbelievable trash. With a cool ass name like that I hoped it’d be some kind of gothic, intense storyline.

Instead there’s this dude named Paul.

Paul is a writing apparently. He needs his coffee cup to say “Coffee” on it. He writes by hand. It’s the late 70s after all. Paul loves Maria. Maria looks different in every picture of her.

Maria the changeling is a rich girl that Paul love. No. If she was a changeling, she would be way cooler. Her main trait is that she's rich. That half-chopped woman in the second last image is her rich mother. Her mother's main trait is that she's snobby.

Paul recites poetry to Maria. This is a Paul poem:

I met her in the evening By the riverside Her dress was creamy white And her hair with ribbon tied. She turned and smiled at me, And I asked her for her name. Though I am young and poor, My love will stay the same.

So Paul's main trait is he's poor. He's added one more trait to Maria. She wears ribbons. These two have a riveting romance. Paul likes that Maria wears beautiful clothes. She's lovely. That's about it. They hang out at the river's edge. Maria tells Paul she loves him.

This is enough for Paul to propose to her. But alas! Maria can't marry Paul and she flees.

Paul's mother, who looks like an Edwardian cook in like Downton Abbey or something is all, "Oh shit Paul. She doesn't love you."

Cue angry rich woman that's Maria's mama. She sends her driver in a Rolls Royce down to Paul's place, picks him up, and brings him to the House on the Hill, pretty much just to shit on him. She's all, "You're so poor you stupid stupid boy. My daughter is rich. I've married her off to a rich. Go away poor." She leaves the room and sucks out all the rich with her with ... Except Maria's all, "Well Paul. Mama's right. You're poor. I might love you, but you can't buy me fancy things in the late 70s like a disco ball or a rattan settee." Paul flails down the hill, tears in his eyes, and he's crying, "Maaaaarrrriiiiaaaaa! Why don't you love me? Oh because I'm POOR!"

Paul's mom is all, "Paul. Those people are dicks."

Paul ignores her.

Now this is the section that's like Twilight Part Deux where Paul sits in a room alone, not eating, not sleeping, and then he goes to the river but he doesn't recite poetry because he's not going to cause that cruelty to the world again.

Inexplicably, the local newspaper "THE CLARION" has RICH MAN'S BEAUTIFUL BRIDE as the byline of the main page of the paper. It's a shit byline. Of course that's Maria and her new rich husband. The husband has the traits of rich, old, and fat (of course in this book that seems to be a focus that makes him a monster).

Luckily Paul sees an ad for a Story Competition. Here is the ad:

Somehow Paul thinks, "Yeah if I win this by writing a self-insert fan fic about Maria and me getting together she'll be all over me and super pissed she married the old guy."

There's no preamble. He wins the stupid competition.

Somehow that leads to him being a reporter. I love how he didn't have to go to University or anything for that. Because the newspaper manager (with the story competition?) is all, "Wow you're such a good writer I want to hire you as a reporter!" I guess since they have a shitty byline writer they need someone?

This is Paul, our new reporter. This is Paul's reporting style:

Paul to Celebrity at some big event: "Any more news sir?"

SUCH REPORTING

This is the best multipanel comic ever. I LIKE YOUR NEW STORY PAUL.

WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH YOUR WORK PAUL.

OFFICE THINGS. CHARTS! RED PHONE!

Paul's still obsessing over Maria. He's working hard asking all the hard questions. He's also an extra in an 80s office setting movie. Look at this image. So much plastic Ken doll hair.

This is the big news room story meeting. I guess. A reporter comes into the office and is all

#weeding books #the house on the hill #cataloguing

[laurelindebear]

I am not supposed to be working today because I don't work Fridays and it's a bank holiday and I've done my hours this week but I am anyway because I'm behind where I want to be and I am haunted by the full list of information fields for cataloguing procedure.

H...how do I somehow create an in-house document that contains the exact wording and formatting that should be used for every possible iteration of every piece of information that could/would/will be added to an object entry in a catalogue under every possible circumstance. I'm not sure that's physically possible.

For reference, there are no less than 101 fields that are listed in the recommended cataloguing procedure. I. I don't.

I'm going to have to simplify and streamline all of this, because our catalogue absolutely does not contain 101 informational fields yet alone more to describe what those 101 fields are. I'll be really jazzed when I'm sure the inventory is complete, to be honest. I'll probably do a stupid little dance that day.

#personal #work #museum work #cataloguing #I have gazed into eternity and it has looked back superciliously wearing pince-nez #I thought I could be pedantic but this is god-level stuff here #I feel genuinely changed as a person right now #also I've probably eaten too much chocolate today

[carryonlikewedidbefore]

I'm currently doing some cataloguing and opened the Moys book to a random page. Good to know there's a shelf number for alien property

#librarian things #cataloguing

[heedra]

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

#im not much of an online shopper myself but i do find that the feeling i get from browsing the library catalogue to place holds #is the same i get from figuring out how to spend a gift card

[verflares]

NOW SPELL: ANGEL Z-E-L-D-A WRONG! TRY AGAIN.

#light dragon #zelda #princess zelda #totk #totk spoilers #loz #loz fanart #blacked out and drew this . she is the tortured babygirl of alltime forever and always. the cosmic unfavourite. love her #ftr the pose here is the dying swan which is very thematically appropriate #but that stupid mandela catalogue/deltarune remix has been stuck in my head bcus i kept listening to it while painting. and well #my art

[u-mspcoll]

Salonicco: e la porta d'un fornaio. DS 135 .G72 T41 V47 1917

Newly added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection, this card depicts a crowd of men in front of a narrow two-store building in Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece, around 1917. The picture was taken by French photographer Henri Manuel (1874–1947), who served as the official photographer of the French government from 1914 to 1944. Read more!

#jewish salonica postcard collection #jewish heritage #jewish salonica #Salonica #historical photographs #postcards #historical postcards #photography #photographs #sephardim #sephardic #Sephardi #special collections #special collections and archives #special collections libraries #libraries and archives #archives #cataloging #Cataloguing

[j-august]

He had now begun to discover, the hard way, that information not properly classified can be irretrievably lost.

Arthur C. Clarke, Imperial Earth

#quote #quotation #Arthur C. Clarke #Imperial Earth #information #classification #loss #old problems #archiving #cataloguing

[from-the-books-of-oset]

u hear something once and it haunts u, in a good way

like the fact this piece of information:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/cotton-manuscripts

this has to be to cutest way to catalogue books

so i will do the same

but instead of imperial dudes i'll have fictional characters guard my shelves

oset W.I.T.C.H. Taranee / Irma / Will

oset Kłapouchy (Eeyore)

oset Kirby

oset Hollow Knight

oset Yoshi

oset Smok Wawelski (Wawel Dragon)

oset Ewok

oset Mały Głód (Small Hunger)

i'll try to do a book every week

cover, publishing info, blurb, provenance, small personal description, perhaps a fragment from the text

#booklr #book hoarding #books #cataloguing #book collection #personal project #art project

[thepotentialof2007]

Sometimes the only person who has devoted fifteen minutes of mental receptivity and appreciation to a book, aside from its author and (with luck) its publisher, is the cataloguer at the library who described it for the OCLC database."

Nicholson Baker, “Discards”

#nicholson baker #cataloguing #libraries #an intriguing and melancholy point #from a very long diatribe