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About me I currently live in Cambridgeshire and work in a library. I am one year into a distance learning course in library studies and am very interested in the social sharing of data and its effects on library cataloguing policies. I am passionate about uniting a library user with their required relevant information. I find history and literature a constant fascination and am currently interested in learning and outreach.
I listen to music and enjoy going to gigs, I find creative writing extremely therapeutic and I read widely in order to broaden my mind and escape into other worlds.
I like to travel and experience different cultures. I enjoy contemplating folklore and our explanations for the mysteries of the Universe
I like cats, and schnauzers, and it is my aim to someday provide a home for one. Other than all that, I like watching Dr Who and Buffy, trashy tv, good red wine, talking with my husband and my friends, and generally questioning the universe.

About my library Contrary to my original statement of only cataloguing books that I read or buy from now on, I have now decided to catalogue my entire library. Well, I've done 135 books so far and that is just one bookcase! As for the contents, I am entering everything that I own and any books that I borrow from now onwards. It's quite an eclectic mix of stuff, none of which I can bear to weed!

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Hello mrsradcilffe - yes you can. Thanks for asking. Until I read that thread I never even thought of putting tags out there for other people! As I said in the thread, too, I'm amazed that other people don't tag their books by location of some sort.

I'd be interested in seeing your paper if it's something you can share...

Good luck!

karenmarie

posted by karenmarie at 1:14 pm (EST) on Jun 17, 2008

Have you read Tristram Shandy yet?

I bought it, I think, after hearing that a rather obscure French book that I love is based on it (Jacques le Fataliste et son Maitre). I may possibly have been influenced, also, by Harriet reading it on the beach at the start of Have His Carcase...

Then I didn't get around to reading it for about five years. Finally I went to see the film A Cock and Bull Story, loved it, decided I'd been procrastinating long enough - and blasted through the book in two days. It's near the top of my list of "classics that don't count as classics because they are too much fun".

And if you're only just discovering Sayers - I envy you! I ran out of unread ones a few years back, but am finding Lois McMaster Bujold is fitting the same sort of mental slot (only with spaceships).

posted by kicking_k at 6:54 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2008

Dear Mrs. Radcliffe:

Saw your post about reading Busman's Honeymoon. Here's the comment I put on the What You're Reading page:

#119 - mrsradcliffe Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions is one of my favorite Sayers. It is actually the culmination of several books with Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane and you might want to consider reading the first meeting of the two first: Strong Poison. I forget the order after that, but there are several with both of them together and at least one with just Peter Wimsey with references to Harriet Vane.

I envy you discovering Dorothy Sayers and having all her wonderful books ahead of you!

posted by karenmarie at 9:00 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2008

Thank you so much for the information. That does let me know quite a bit more than I did know! I will look at the link and see what other resources I can find for some informal training. I appreciate your time!

posted by bequiet65 at 6:05 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2008

Hi - read a post in the Talk section where you were talking about LC classification and cutter labels. I want to use LC to organize my books, but know very little except for what I downloaded of the classifications. What are cutter labels? And, if you know, why are there extra codes separated from the main mode by a space, or a decimal and space such as .B76 in the label BS551.3 .B76 2001 (I figured out the last is the date). Are there simple "instructions" anywhere that you know of?

Kelly Lee
emanni.general@yahoo.com

posted by bequiet65 at 2:06 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2007

hey so you've been studying latin as well...i am lately cataloging lots of 18th century latin dissertations and find the "anagram" Q.D.B.V. at the head of the title. any clue what that means? i can't for the life of me figure it out!

posted by irene_adler at 10:37 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2007

forgive me, forgot to mention that i, too, am trying to learn latin from scratch, so i sympathize. you are right - much harder than it seems. i catalog lots of latin stuff these days, so i'm learning rather by trial-and-error.

posted by irene_adler at 10:09 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007

hey cool, sounds like we have a lot in common. i'm a huge 18th/19th century french lit fan as you may have already determined but i'm also just getting in to nautical/maritime lit. oh, and then there's the red wine:) have you had any rare books cataloging classes?

posted by irene_adler at 10:00 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007

Just an all-too-hasty note to say "thanks" for your replies re : D H Lawrence. It`ll be interesting to see what (if anything)others come up with.

Best,

Nick

posted by nickhoonaloon at 7:06 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2007

Yes, I am a Mrs Radcliffe fan; in fact, I'm about to reread either [The Italian] or [The Mysteries of Udolpho] (haven't made my mind up yet) for this reading challenge.

You're another distance learner! I don't know how far in you are, but I'm sorry to say I find cataloguing on LT to be excellent displacement activity from writing essays on collection policy (or what have you...) I cannot bear to throw books away either, and as a result I have to reshelve them all every couple of months. I've got to stop buying them... but how can I?

From a brief look at what you've got, I think we will share more books once I do my next bout of uploading!

posted by kicking_k at 10:27 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2007

Congratulations! Your review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was one of the fifty prize winners. See the blog post announcing the winners. You've won a gift membership and a CueCat barcode scanner.

Send an email to info@librarything.com to claim your prize. Include your user name on LibraryThing, as well as your mailing address (so we can send out the CueCat!).

Cliff
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posted by dinner_bell at 4:02 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

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