Cataloging continues this week...from the Caribbean. Luckily Catalog It is nice and light and flexible which makes it travel well...plus there is the added bonus of the funny looks and questions you get when you are reading "a guide to cataloging school library materials"
It was nice to read about all of the different tags and exactly what each is used for. I have to admit that with copy cataloging you really do get out of practice. I always know the common ones like 245 and 650 but I hardly ever see 511 or 590's. It has been nice to go back and refresh my memory.
I especially enjoyed the ext to the last chapter...and not just because it was next to the last chapter! but because it was about the future of cataloging. I always wonder what the future of cataloging will hold. With users assigning tags to their information do the library of congress headings still have meaning? or will we migrate away from formal organization systems like LOC and dewey and toward a more arbitrary and user defined system. I don't think that the formal organization will go away completely but I do see a mix of the two systems being used along side each other. Librarians will catalog the materials and users will have the opportunity to organize the things they use the way they would like and to share their tags and ratings with others.
The section on websites was informative although I have not decide yet if I will catalog websites in the library catalog or just online with the library's diigo site.
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Hey, this is some pretty deep thinking for someone who just made it off the beach! Nice job.
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