Bill Gates is due be made Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. All a bit naff I feel and puts me off wanting a KBE, although I still wouldn’t sniff at a baronetcy if one…
More advanced tagging
Following my post yesterday on del.icio.us and my comment thereto on the shortcomings of its tagging system, I came across an article on the Next generation of open tagging systems on Library Stuff via Catalogablog. It reports on a service…
Cows in art on delicious
I have started using del.icio.us to collect examples of cows in art. Whereas with Famous Cows and Cow Games, which I compiled using browser bookmarks and straight to html, del.icio.us lets me collect them a little more efficiently and have…
Where is CILIP?
Librarywebbie comments on the Guardian article about Bangor University proposing to sack most of its professional library staff: Question is, why is there no mention on CILIP’s website? I hope they are lobbying strongly. I had the same thought last…
Et In Arcadia Ego
In Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln’s Da holy blood and the holy grail, a great, or rather disproportinate fuss is made of the fact that Poussin’s painting Da Shepherds has a tomb with the Latin inscription Et in Arcadia ego (it’s…
Nadgers
Following on from my post entitled Oh dear, it seems I was way too slow in using Google’s cache, or anyone else’s for that matter. However, I’m sure the world will not weep too much, and the one post I…
Oh dear
Aurlog’s server went down at the weekend, making its several websites, including Aurlog and Aurochs.org, unavailable. It is now back and most of the affected sites suffered no loss of files. However, the one affected site was Aurlog. As you…
Why MARC is bad
Bad is probably too strong a word, but MARC has severe failings, most of which seem actually to date from its conception, rather than being exposed by changing practice. That said, the main failing seems to be that it was…
Pope announces England win
The Pope, or the lay preacher for the Unitarian church of Rome as he is now called, has admitted that Martin Luther did in fact have a point. Speaking at the opening of the city’s first public convenience for bears,…
What a cataloguer does all day
In response to a comment by kyrogenix, there follows a dry summary of what a typical traditional cataloguer does with his day. If anyone asks me what I do as a cataloguer, I say that I spend my time describing…