The Cataloging Swan Song: Grades. For those of you numerically dedicated… my cataloging final netted me 2 tenths of a point above the class average. I got an A- in the class over-all. A hard-earned A- and one that I am proud of. As proud as this gentleman. Shortly after the class, a Real CatalogerContinueContinue reading “17: Cataloging grades”
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15: Cataloging final exam panic
On the night of my (early) cataloging final exam – my Very, Very Last Thing To Do In Library School – I nearly had a panic attack. I studied for two hours the night before the exam, and two hours the night before that, and two hours the afternoon before that. And yet I wasContinueContinue reading “15: Cataloging final exam panic”
14: Cataloging fact #5: It provides nursing home insurance
During my last semester of library school, I helped friends move from Lansing to Portland, Oregon. This required taking my Cataloging final six days early. It earned me nursing home insurance. Let me explain. In order for my friend to arrive in Portland in time to start her new job, we had to leave onContinueContinue reading “14: Cataloging fact #5: It provides nursing home insurance”
11: Cataloging fact #4: Spirit communications
This is a pin given to me at Beginning Workshop by a librarian with A LOT more social media followers than me! Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2 Revision 2002 21.26: Spirit Communications! Enter a communication presented as having been received from a spirit under the name of the spirit. Enter the name of the medium orContinueContinue reading “11: Cataloging fact #4: Spirit communications”
10: Cataloging fact #3: Job security
Almost all public libraries use the Dewey Decimal system to shelve their non-fiction books. And almost all academic libraries use the Library of Congress (LC) system. Do you want to know how academic libraries saved their staff during the Great Depression? They convinced academic administrators that the new Library of Congress system was not onlyContinueContinue reading “10: Cataloging fact #3: Job security”
8: Cataloging fact #2: Mohammedanism
Peace Be Upon You In 1988, I went into my local public library (in a progressive, university town), looking for information on Islam. I was very proud of my facility with the card catalog and I went straight for the “I’s.” Nothing. I went to a librarian who cheerfully led me back to the wallContinueContinue reading “8: Cataloging fact #2: Mohammedanism”
6: Cataloging fact #1
Librarians measure books in centimeters because Melville Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system and a New Yorker, was a francophile. We measure VHS, CD, and DVD containers in inches because Dewey was dead when they were invented Unless you’re in this profession there’s no reason to know this, but Dewey was a long, strangeContinueContinue reading “6: Cataloging fact #1”
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