Quotes About Cataloging

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Never index your own book.

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

it would be well worth your time to start keeping a codebook, listing all the objects, people, and situations that seem to recur in your Image Streams together with what you think they might mean

If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place.

So where does the human error come in? Well, sometimes I buy a stamp and mount it in my album without troubling to log it in my catalog. And later I find it offered on somebody else's list, and see that it's one I don't have, and buy it again. And then when I go to mount the new copy in my album, there's one already there.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

I file this away under Misc. Facts about M.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

He was the archivist, and all the archives of the town were in his office. That has nothing to do with the story. Anyway

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

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Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.

La biblioteca se hace igual con lo que se elige como con lo que queda descartado.

Metadata, in its most informal but most prevalent definition, is "data about data.

An access point is a name, word, phrase, or identifier chosen by a cataloger or indexer and placed in a particular field in a record that describes a

It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.

She arranged her own books

It was a deep green felt that held one thousand slips of paper, numbered 001 to 999.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.