Member: johninvienna

Hello, John. Thanks for adding my collection to your list of interesting libraries. I have still a few hundred exhibition catalogues to add, and lots of ephemera and comics. I noticed with interest the extra information you include within each of your exhibition catalogue records. As a former art librarian, I am but all too well familiar with the specific (and often daunting) problems this kind of publication may pose when you want to catalogue it. Make sure you are not getting quagmired in something of Sisyphian proportions!
- Peter

posted by Peter_Bookling at 11:29 am (EST) on Oct 27, 2009

Servus, John! Thanks for adding my library to your list - I've returned the compliment. Happy reading! -Tim

posted by jucundushomo at 1:37 am (EST) on Jun 28, 2009

Hello! I'm flattered you find my library interesting--so is yours.

posted by BarkingMatt at 3:27 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

Dear Jennifer!

You are the first member to add me to "interesting libraries" and I feel this is quite an honor. Especially since you are a librarian and I think it is in my blood too! Anyway I am a retired UN employee and after a short stay back in Sacramento (hometown), decided to retire in Vienna. I am a book nut and have well over 5,000. My three main interests are history with emphasis on the Habsburgs (I don't write it with a P as they don't either). Second is photography - which I also do (and have published many photos). The big collection, however, is catalogues dealing with tribal (ethnographic) and non-European art. I have several thousand and wish to donate the lot to the Museum für Völkerkunde here. I am an executive member of the friends of this museum and I have a beautiful office in the Hofburg (winter palace of the emperor). I have a couple of requests, and hope you don't mind taking a bit of time!

1. I am adding information to the exhibition catalogues, giving all the venues (up to 15 in one case, usually two, three, or four). These I put under comments, numbered, with the respective dates (many of which I get from the internet, private communications, etc.).
2. I am also adding the main collections covered by the catalog - up to five or six (not 28 or 150!) - this is to help one find objects (pictures, information on) residing in a museum, which is not obvious from the normal bibliographic information.
3. I am including in the TAGS both of these lists of museums (without dates and details of course). I am trying to enter the original name (for Japanese, Chinese, Arabic etc I will enter the name in original if I can get it, but the main Tag will be in a European language like English or German). These are alphabetical with the place in the original (Geneve, Wien, Roma).
4. I am also adding number of pages, illustration info., bibliographical information, etc. I am a little disappointed that this is not extracted (it is certainly in the MARC records); it is in most library records!

You are a librarian - what do you think of all this? I hope the long tags do not cause LibraryThing any problems! I would love to hear any comments you would have about my entries - especially any suggestions for improvements. I have just put in 300 books (started 11 December) and have thousands to go!

By the way, some of the books stores here are big on royalty and I could certainly send you a book or two on the Habsburgs or whatever you would like. Do let me know if I can send you something!!

I do hope I did not bore you,
greetings from a very cold Vienna,

John Marshall

posted by johninvienna at 6:52 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2009

tags, Oh.
let's say i hade experience. ;)
i started catalouging my books with my first pc (the new 80-2-86 processor was just out). first i used texteditors, later dbase3 then i changed to ms-access and after it colapsed (due to a pc-death with dataloss) i used open-office and then found LT. so... i hade a bit of experimenting with tags before i could implement my latest theory on LT.
i allready have new ideas but are to lazy to overhaul the whole system.

OK. leun is in central germany right between Taunus and Westerwald. maybe Leica Camera rings a bell? Oh, better idea
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leun
the next city
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetzlar

why not copy digital-foto-data directly on your pc, that will be the easyest way. i would only recomend scanning if you use analogcameras.

security on lt. somewhere is written that the data is stored on several servers so... if one dies the rest should keep the data save. BUT that is info only the provider can present with accuracy.

oh, oh. serie. wenn ich ehrlich bin trage ich das auch nicht ein sondern benutze es nur als TAG. diese moeglichkeit des eintrags wurde erst spaeter eroeffnet und so hatte ich schon viele eintraege die ich dann zu ergaenzen haette. so... habe ich es nicht gemacht.
aber wie ich schon sagte, ich habe neue ideen fuer das tag-system und natuerlich gehoert dann auch eine ausschoepfung aller moeglichen eingaben dazu. aber jetzt nochmal alles neu? NOOOOO. ;)

mata ne oliver

posted by omf at 4:54 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2009