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Category Archives: Adventures in Collection Management
The Prophet and the Archivist’s Nightmare: A Tale from the Weeds
When I briefly worked in the archival collection at my former university, one of the things I absolutely loathed was dealing with old faxes printed on thermal paper. Text and images printed this way tend to fade or disappear very … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventures in Collection Management, archive, art, books, fax, Fax Power, photography, preservation, weeding
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Weeding and the Fine Art of Slapping Leather
This week’s fun find in the cart of deaccessioned books is the most well-known work by Western (as in cowboys-and-gunfighters) author Eugene Cunningham: Triggernometry: Don’t be fooled by that plain and simple cover — this is no dry tome full … Continue reading
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Commonplace Weeds
Once upon a time, children, before the internet put us in the position to drown in information at high speeds and with a great and terrible efficiency, we used to write stuff down. In fact, we often did so (horrors!) … Continue reading
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Tagged "Peter Principle", Adventures in Collection Management, books, commonplace book, John Locke, library, library and information science, quotations, weeding
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Back Into The Weeds
It’s time again for some library collection weeding — the Reference section, this time — and that means it is also time for another round of Weird Stuff I Found In The Collection. Yay! This week’s theme: Vintage Sexism (It’s … Continue reading
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Game of Poems
In addition to useful pamphlets/presentation scripts for the improvement of young minds and state textbooks containing selections of important literature meant to encourage a love of reading, the Wood’s House collection also contains the following handy assortment of poetry (with prose … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventures in Collection Management, Agnes L. Pratt, authorship, books, One Hundred and One Famous Poems, plagiarism, poetry, Wood's House
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Return to the Island of Misfit Books
As I return (at last!) to my little cataloging-and-blogging project, I find myself interested in some of the small pamphlets and booklets that somehow found their way into the Wood’s House Collection. Today’s specimen, for example, is a neatly printed … Continue reading
Type(face)s and Tokens
The development of movable (metal) type presses is, of course, a revolutionary technological feat that changed how information was presented, stored, and shared. While we often (“we” being general folks who aren’t printers and know more about the results of … Continue reading
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Tagged "Specimen Book of Types", Adventures in Collection Management, books, Ginn and Co., printing, The Athenaeum Press, typography
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In Case of Apocalypse, Break Into Library
While (as I’ve already said) there is no apparent rhyme or reason to the books in the Wood’s House collection, there are some popular genres and themes (broadly construed): historical fiction, outdated textbooks, and a wide variety of reference works. Among … Continue reading
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Tagged "A Dictionary of Everyday Wants", "Austin's New Encyclopedia of Usable Information", Adventures in Collection Management, books, library, Wood's House
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Back to the Fraktur
A little while ago, I posted a few odd thoughts on the intersection of print and content in response to a much better piece of writing addressing that subject (among other things). As it turns out, I’m not quite finished with … Continue reading
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
As it is That Time of Year again (i.e. the closing few weeks of the Spring semester, when apathy and desperation most fruitfully combine), plagiarism, copyright infringement, and other forms of printed malfeasance occupy a lot of my attention. Even my little Wood’s … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Adventures in Collection Management, bookbinding, books, letter manuals, letters, plagiarism, Rev. Thomas Cooke, Wood's House
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The Deaccessioned Philosopher 