Tag: cataloguing
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Sorting out the Popes!
Read more: Sorting out the Popes!This is not an attempt to criticize the Catholic Church or the Popes. It is merely a data quality project. Please let me explain this further. Every catalogue record should have so-called “authorities”, these are bits in the record which are highly-controlled forms of a name or a subject; if we do our job properly…
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Second officer’s log #1
Read more: Second officer’s log #1Training new crew members (or in our case, work experience volunteers) comes with its own trials and tribulations. In my case, as Second Officer but primarily Cataloguer, I am tasked with breaking down cataloguing to its basic and most simple form. I have discovered that this can be way more difficult than it sounds! I…
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100,000th record – revisited
Read more: 100,000th record – revisitedWe recently catalogued the 100,000th record on our library system, and this was a news item on the Jesuits in Britain web page! The record is a volume of multiple, themed issue of the Concilium journal …