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Jan. 12th, 2009 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizzybennet"What can be more easy (those lacking understanding say), having looked at the title-pages than to write down the titles?" But these inexperienced people, who think making an index of their own few private books a pleasant task of a week or two, have no conception of the difficulties that rise or realize how carefully each book must be examined when the library numbers myriads of volumes. In the colossal labor, which exhausts both body and soul, of making into a alphabetical catalog a multitude of books gathered from every corner of the earth there are many intricate and difficult problems that torture the mind." -Sir Thomas Hyde, 1674
Do you read that? TORTURE THE MIND!! Being a librarian is going to torture my mind!
This is a quote from one of my text books in my cataloging and classification class. In our getting-to-know you posts, our teacher asked if any of us cataloged or classified anything in our own homes. Um, no? How about I'm lucky to know where a book is much less have it cataloged. I'm going to blame this on the fact that life with kids is too busy to bother with such things. Yeah, that sounds like a good excuse. I was surprised to hear how many people in my class DO catalog their things. One popular item turned out to be spices. Several people in the class alphabetize their spices. I keep wondering what about all that extra room behind the spices? Of course, that is if they keep their spices in the cabinet like I do. I suppose it makes perfect sense in a rack. Another person commented how he likes to go to his friends' houses and alphabetize their dvd collections (and then group by director.)
I do like to organize. At least, I used to like to organize before it just got stamped out of me. Honestly, how many times can I sort the toys by type only to have them mixed back up together before I'm a completely defeated person? Sometimes I daydream about the day when, in the far-off future, my house will be organized. When that day comes I'll alphabetize my spices and my dvds. For now, I've resigned myself to the fact that when I need to find a certain spice, I have to climb onto the counter to look through all of them until I find what I'm searching for, lurking in the deepest recesses of the shelving.
Do you read that? TORTURE THE MIND!! Being a librarian is going to torture my mind!
This is a quote from one of my text books in my cataloging and classification class. In our getting-to-know you posts, our teacher asked if any of us cataloged or classified anything in our own homes. Um, no? How about I'm lucky to know where a book is much less have it cataloged. I'm going to blame this on the fact that life with kids is too busy to bother with such things. Yeah, that sounds like a good excuse. I was surprised to hear how many people in my class DO catalog their things. One popular item turned out to be spices. Several people in the class alphabetize their spices. I keep wondering what about all that extra room behind the spices? Of course, that is if they keep their spices in the cabinet like I do. I suppose it makes perfect sense in a rack. Another person commented how he likes to go to his friends' houses and alphabetize their dvd collections (and then group by director.)
I do like to organize. At least, I used to like to organize before it just got stamped out of me. Honestly, how many times can I sort the toys by type only to have them mixed back up together before I'm a completely defeated person? Sometimes I daydream about the day when, in the far-off future, my house will be organized. When that day comes I'll alphabetize my spices and my dvds. For now, I've resigned myself to the fact that when I need to find a certain spice, I have to climb onto the counter to look through all of them until I find what I'm searching for, lurking in the deepest recesses of the shelving.