the shrinking librarian

Oct 3

orionthecoffeemaker:

From The Song of the Library Staff by Sam Walter Foss (1906).

From The Song of the Library Staff by Sam Walter Foss (1906).

Jun 22

Cataloging Then, Now, and Tomorrow | American Libraries Magazine

“Up until the early 2000s, libraries probably had only one catalog, hosted by an integrated library system. By 2011, most libraries had more than one catalog featured on their library website. There are many third-party information systems that work with library catalogs. Many library catalog interfaces are also powered by enhancement tools such as Encore, VuFind, or LibraryThing.”

(via iLibrarian)

Apr 21

informationscienceantelope:

[What do catalogers do? If I told you, I’d have to kill you.]

Apr 13

informationscienceantelope:

[Took cataloging class, spend hours standardizing personal Tumbr tags]

I don’t let myself get too obsessive about personal cataloging. (Mostly I just take it so seriously I can never even decide where to start.)

Feb 18

fyeahlibrarysciencelion:

Dewey VS. LOC?

[Picture: Background - a six piece pie style colour split, multi-colored. Foreground - a picture of an stone lion. Top text: ” [Why do you use Dewey or LOC? Can’t you organize the books like a bookstore?] ” Bottom text: “ [Shun the nonbeliever! Shuuuunnnnn!] ”]

Dec 27

bainzie:

librarianheygirl:

Thanks Helen and Alison.

Photo from http://triplecoin.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ryan-Gosling2-1024x768.jpg.

Oh, nerdy librarian things…

AHAHAHA.

Nov 23

Six amazing, and possibly unexpected, things about life as a cataloguer | High Visibility Cataloguing

(via LISNews)

Nov 19

How Hashtagging the Web Could Improve Our Collective Intelligence

“Why all the fuss over tweets? Twitter hosts valuable, communal conversation in real-time. And Twitter trends become more powerful the more users contribute to the dialogue. Finally, Twitter allows the chatter of millions to be parsed into channels (hashtags) of real-time conversation that covers widely varying topics. Jokes, rumors, political movements, pop culture fanaticisms, the collective screaming of teenagers — they all bubble to the surface and shift and change like an oil slick, much like a collective human consciousness.”

Nov 16

ghardin:

Room 100, including card catalogs by New York Public Library on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Digital ID: 1153322. Date depicted: 1923
Source: New York Public Library Visual Materials / Lantern Slides / Research Library / Cataloging (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.
See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1153322

(via librarianista)

Nov 5

niyis:

SHE CAN ALPHABETIZE YOUR BONY ASS WITH A SIDEWAYS GLANCE OF HER LASER EYES.

the shrinking librarian

A shy violet keeps a library & information science scrapbook.

Cataloging Then, Now, and Tomorrow | American Libraries Magazine

How Hashtagging the Web Could Improve Our Collective Intelligence