Category: amusement
the further adventures of unnaturally-attached-to-me cat.
It’s not every day that someone says to me: “You look pregnant.” Thank Minerva.
can haz squished.
OK, this is me, working in my messy office:
Let us examine the place of the silly cat in my work setup…
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
cheap entertainment.
IM IN UR OFFICE CATALOGGIN UR FILEZ
And let’s see that from the top of the course…
I have a very interesting cat…
if i were a superhero…
From ICHCB, of course.
ha!
dedication.
So, in a name authority record, the birth and death dates of a person are often added:
Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000
For living persons, a birth date is often added and left open:
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
When a living person whose date has been left open dies, the death date can be added. But you need a source of information to cite in the authority record, saying where you got the death date information. Hence, a post from an LC cataloger on RadCat:
I can probably add the death date, but I have to quote something as a source. I have been known to attend funerals and add death dates taken from the service leaflets.
That is dedication and that is why I love cataloging and catalogers.
(I’d just link to the post, but you have to sign in to access the archives. The post was made on Thu, 17 Apr 2008, has the subject “date of death,” so if you are a list member, you can go look. Since the RadCat archives are closed and I can’t find a list statement of policy on quoting list posts in other places, I’m leaving the author name off.)