Monday morning, entering materials into LibraryThing was done. Aside from a few stray materials that trickled in, all of the print volumes are in and have covers. We began loosely tagging the materials for shelving reference, as well, but not too much and nothing permanent.
This week brought with it an interesting problem: how to label [...]
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From across the USA
Posted in labeling, objectives, research, tagged digital catalog, insights, labeling, materials collection, organizing ideas, print collection on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve managed to make friends on both sides of the country through this project, and I’m learning more and more that attempting to catalog and develop an organizational scheme and method is a never-ending project, even in a facility that has part or full time librarians.
A couple of weeks ago, I did some creative research [...]
Week 3 progress
Posted in goals, research, tagged goals, organizing ideas, research, users on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Week three has been all about compiling ideas. I ended up not going in on Tuesday and rescheduled for this coming Tuesday. In doing so, I’ve been working on building a couple of prototypes for the print collection’s digital component. I have a feeling that once I have all of the titles in one place [...]
Week 2 progress
Posted in labeling, research, users, tagged cataloging, digital catalog, insights, labeling, materials collection, organization, print collection, user survey on September 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, I got more accomplished than planned and I feel that this project is going to turn out very well and benefit the firm greatly.
At the very beginning of the week, I composed a user-survey that Gwen and Laurie (my site supervisors) distributed to members of the firm. Although required to answer my questions, [...]
Groundwork: Week 1 Progress
Posted in research, users, tagged materials library, organizing information, print library, research, users on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week has consisted of setting up some groundwork for the project. More specifically, I’ve begun to compile some sources to investigate regarding cataloging and organizing schemes. After recently renewing my SLA membership, I added a caucus on architecture and design and after poking around their wiki, I discovered a topic on cataloging both print [...]
