Tag: cataloguing
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Cataloguing update: investigations in stenography
Read more: Cataloguing update: investigations in stenographyAt first glance this Bible appears relatively unassuming. I started cataloguing as I normally would by first looking at a book’s title page. As I had only paid attention to one part of the title ‘The Holy Bible containing the Old & New Testament’, I thought this would be a pretty straightforward job.
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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…