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[lizzybennet]

Next time you go to the library, I want you to take a moment and look at all those books. It is taking me over an hour to catalog just one book. Just one!! Can you imagine how long it took to catalog all those myriad of books that cover the shelves in your local library? Appreciate that junk!!

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[themenow.livejournal.com]

Wow.

now, when you say cataloging a book, what does that mean?

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

For my final project in one class, I have to catalog five books. The whole class this semester has been on cataloging which is not as simple as I thought! Here's my one hours worth of work. I don't know how it will look cut and pasted in to lj, but I'll try. I have to come up with a library of congress number, assign it subject headings, measure it, blah-blah-blah! I no likey.

ISBN 020 014043576

090 PL741.2 $b .M8 2005

100 Murasaki, Shikibu


Title St. Resp. 245 1 4 The diary of lady murasaki/ $c by Murasaki,
Shikibu; translation and introduction by
Richard Bowring.

246 3 b Diary of lady muraskai


Edition


Imprint 260 London: $a New York: $b Penguin Books, $c
c2005.


Physical Desc 300 lii, 65 p.; $b ill., maps; $c 20 cm.



Series


Notes 500 Revised and re-edited ed of: Murasaki
Shikibu: Her diary and poetic
memoirs/ Richard Bowring, 1982.

504 Includes appendixes (68-90).

650 b 0 Japanese diaries,$X Heian period, $Y 794-
1185.


700 _ b Bowring, Richard.

[themenow.livejournal.com]

So you had to look all that up and it took an hour? I don't even know what half of that stuff means!! holy moley! I...wow...I'm speechless.

Will you have to do this alot as a librarian?

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

I don't have to look it all up, just some of it. A lot of it I have to determine from looking at the title page and page verso of the book.

I hope I won't have to do a lot of this. Most places employ a full time cataloger and I personally have no interest in pursuing that field. But we shall see what comes about...

[(Anonymous)]

i do appreciate it, that's why it drives me crazy when my kids take them out of order and then just lay them back on any old shelf. UGH!!! I used to work in a library putting away the books. my books aren't alphabetized but they are sorted by genre for oh a week or two before my kids get into them. lol
anna