Quotes About Cataloging

Alexandria's first librarian, Zenodotus, attempted to put this mass of scrolls in order. The first scrolls were inventoried and then organized alphabetically, with a tag affixed to the end of each scroll indicating the author, title, and subject. These three categories came to define the traditional card catalog and are still the cornerstone of library cataloging.

Callimachus divided the scrolls into separate classes, such as poetry, philosophy, and law, and then further subdivided them into a narrower range of subjects or genres.

The papers of Jerry Fairbanks Studios lie uncatalogued in the basement of the UCLA research library.

Sottolineo molto e ho l'abitudine di segnare alla fine del libro i numeri delle pagine che mi interessano, di modo che un giorno, leggendo quella serie di riferimenti, potrò in pochi minuti dare un'occhiata alle cose che più mi avevano sorpreso.

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

Was there a Dewey Decimal number too? Winnie asked. He had the impression if she could snort Dewey numbers she'd get high.

I was a librarian.

I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?

There's a Man Goin' Round Taking Names —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

she removed each item, she noted it

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