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Artwork Cataloging Practices

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Dlachenm

The article “Best Practices for Organizing and Cataloging Artwork” by Marie Lawson for Art Business News discusses best practices for organizing and cataloging artwork. She emphasizes the importance of understanding your collection’s unique needs. Furthermore, Lawson emphasizes the importance of…

Tagged with: art, Cataloging, Classification
Posted in Cataloging

What’s To Blame At The British Museum?

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Dlachenm

If you enjoy a bit of gossip with your cataloguing, look no further. Since August of 2023, the British Museum has been embedded in a bit of a scandal in the museum world – more than 1,500 items in collection…

Tagged with: Cataloging, digitization, history, Museums, Preservation, technology
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The Cost of Nostalgia

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Dlachenm

The other week I dropped off 2 rolls of 35mm to be developed by a local lab that does the process in-house. In my previous experience with this, I was given my negatives developed and would go to campus to…

Tagged with: Analog, Archives, art archive, Cataloging, digitization, photography, Preservation, technology
Posted in Archives, Born Digital, Preservation

What happens to space junk?

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Dlachenm

What happens to space debris that exists outside of the Earth’s orbit? Since April 1961 when the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter space, there have been 378 human spaceflight missions. That’s human-led missions only —…

Tagged with: Cataloging, Classification, Space, Space Debris
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Spooky Season – Research Database Redesign Concepts

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Dlachenm

Any researcher in the social sciences knows the large-scale research databases that allow us to acknowledge the work researcher around the world are doing, to compartmentalize and organize it in a way that we can begin to draw some conclusive…

Tagged with: Archives, Cataloging, Classification, JSTOR, Knowledge Organization, Research databases
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Snake Hill Memorials

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Dlachenm

Snake Hill, officially known as Laurel Hill, is an igneous rock formation that rises from the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Unfortunately, a significant portion of the hill was destroyed in the 1960s due to quarrying, which reduced both its height…

Cataloging Lessons from the Digital Transgender Archive

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Dlachenm

By its name alone, if you were to encounter the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) in your research, that you’d perhaps know what to expect—online materials relating to transgender history. But this begs the question: what does the term transgender history…

Tagged with: Archives, Cataloging, history, metadata, photographs, queer, transgender
Posted in Archives, Cataloging

Cataloging Queerness

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Dlachenm

You are young, you are queer, and you are looking for library materials that reflect who you are. Where do you turn to? If you are in 1932, your options are either “132: Mental Derangements” or “159.9734746: Sexual Inversion”. In…

Tagged with: Cataloging, Classification, Collections, LCSH, LGBTQ+, Libraries, Queer Community
Posted in Cataloging, Classification, Libraries, Library

New Equipment for Loan at the Library- How is it Cataloged?

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Dlachenm

As some of you may have seen in a recent email blast from Pratt Institute’s Library, there are a number of new pieces of hardware available to be borrowed through the library, both in Brooklyn and in Manhattan, which now…