making distinctions.
Ah, Melvil Dui, bless you and your crazy spelling ideas. Crazy compared to what? Oh I don’t know… I admire your ardor for efficiency and consistency.
And this made me laugh and laugh:
–From pages 6 and 7 of Dewey’s Simplified Library School Rules: Card Catalog, Accession, Book Numbers, Shelf List, Capitals, Punctuation, Abbreviations, Library Handwriting, Boston: Library Bureau, 1904, as found on Google Books.
gems from the collection, or, things i found in the catalog recently
- Tickle me emo : Lesbian balladeering, straight-boy emo and the politics of affect / Karen Tongson
- Chapter in Queering the popular pitch / edited by Sheila Whiteley and Jennifer Rycenga, which also contains this chapter which means I might have to check it out, though we will not talk about the mild obsession I’ve had with Sinéad for over half my life: “I am not in a box of any description” : Sinéad O’Connor’s queer outing / Emma Mayhew
- Goth’s Medical pharmacology.
- A record containing the following songs:
- 740 02 Reet, petite and gone.
- 740 02 Rusty, dusty blues.
- 740 02 Is you is or is you ain’t (my baby)
- 740 02 My baby.
- 740 02 Salt pork, West Virginia.
- 740 02 Boogie woogie blue plate.
- 740 02 Buzz me.
- 740 02 Open the door, Richard.
- 740 02 Texas and Pacific.
- 740 02 What’s the use of gettin’ sober (When you’re gonna get drunk again)
- 740 02 What’s the use of getting sober (When you’re going to get drunk again)
- 740 02 I like ‘em fat like that.
- 740 02 I like them fat like that.
- 740 02 Somebody done changed the lock on my door.
- 740 02 Early in the morning.
- 740 02 Five guys named Moe.
- 740 02 Jack, you’re dead.
The gettin’/getting and ‘em/them uncontrolled title access points are truly jewels of access. Yay for the Southern Folklife Collection.
authority control FAIL
The things I find in the catalog…
