{"id":42,"date":"2009-09-14T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/?p=42"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:45:18","slug":"the-peculiarities-of-cataloging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/2009\/09\/14\/the-peculiarities-of-cataloging\/","title":{"rendered":"The peculiarities of cataloging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">At a recent FLIP meeting, this (somewhat) hypothetical question was proposed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080\"><em>How would you explain the process and purpose of cataloging to someone<br \/>\nwho knows nothing about how libraries are organized? <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Susan Mitchell, head of the Consortium Library Technical Services Department, gave a really good answer at the meeting (here&#8217;s hoping that she&#8217;ll share it again in the comments to this post &#8211; hint, hint). At about the same time, an email was circulated throughout the library offering kudos for a recently published paper coauthored by three folks here in the building. Coincidentally, the paper details the process and issues of cataloging some very unique library holdings &#8211;\u00a0 specifically, a collection that documents the historical management of Alaska&#8217;s commercial fishing industry. The paper is a very interesting and enlightening read, and provides a rare glimpse into the precise process of original cataloging. The paper has been electronically published in the International Association of Aquatic &amp; Marine Science Libraries &amp; Information Centers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org\/handle\/1912\/2867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(IAMSLIC) Conference Proceedings 2008<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000\">Here is a direct link to the PDF version:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org\/bitstream\/handle\/1912\/2884\/Carle_IAMSLIC2008.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>COMMFISH: all about Alaska&#8217;s commercial fisheries collections<\/strong><\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Carle, Daria O.; Kazzimir, Edward; Rozen, Celia M.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent FLIP meeting, this (somewhat) hypothetical question was proposed: How would you explain the process and purpose of cataloging to someone who knows nothing about how libraries are organized? Susan Mitchell, head of the Consortium Library Technical Services Department, gave a really good answer at the meeting (here&#8217;s hoping that she&#8217;ll share it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/2009\/09\/14\/the-peculiarities-of-cataloging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The peculiarities of cataloging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[189,190],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cataloging","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}