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Re: Little Triumphs

Posted in Cataloging, Librarianship, Library Life, Oral History, tagged , on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Every now and then you have a little moment that reminds you why you are proud to be a cataloger.
Cataloging is an arcane science.  I like to think of it as a kind of cryptography–you analyze the object in hand and then “code it up” so that people can find it when they do a [...]

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Re: Hooters

Posted in Boreal owl, Library Life, Oral History, True Librarian Confessions on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Part of my job as oral history collection manager is evaluating potential donations for inclusion in our collection. Which frequently means listening to unmarked or marginally labeled tapes of all kinds. So I’m sitting at my desk, going through a box of audiocassettes from the local wildlife refuge and I pop an unlabeled one into [...]

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Re: Get Your Kicks on Route 66

Posted in Dalton Highway, Learning 2.0, Oral History, Project Jukebox on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Okay, I just can’t resist bragging a bit on Project Jukebox. Definitely stop in and check out our latest multimedia project, the Dalton Highway jukebox. This collaboration between the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and the library is one of our most ambitious projects to date combining archival film footage, photos, maps, [...]

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Re: What Library2.0 Means to Me

Posted in Learning 2.0, Library 2.0, Library Trends, Oral History on August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Snagged from the blog of the Librarian Avenger. Don’t know where she got it from, but I like it.
What Library 2.0 means to me is new tools to accomplish the old work of the library. I’ve knocked around in the profession long enough to know that while the technology we use changes, the main [...]

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