LibraryThing is organizing what it calls a Flash-Mob Cataloging Party on Nov. 15 to catalog the approximately 1200 books in the collection of St. John’s Episcopal Church in my old back yard, Beverley, MA. The idea is to create for them a complete LibraryThing catalog. Why the party? Well:
[I]t’s not always easy for a single overworked [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cataloging’
A Library “Barn Raising”
Posted in Cool ideas, tagged Cataloging, LibraryThing, Massachusetts on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Businesses Benefit from Classification
Posted in News, tagged Cataloging on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A fellow reader of AUTOCAT linked to a brief business article in the New York Times which will interest librarians in general, but catalogers in particular. Can’t Decide? Look for the Label describes a study in which students were shown the same 144 magazines in two make-believe store settings. In the one, the magazines were divided into [...]
