Member: rjohara

CollectionsYour library (2,377)

Reviews28 reviews

TagsQ (1,003), QL (435), QH (311), QL 6xx (278), P (252), working copy (206), reprints (166), B (156), L (148), Q. (120) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Groups"I See Dead People's Books", All Things New England, American Revolution & Founding Fathers History, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient History, Antiquarian Books, Architext, Art History, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Book Care and Repair — show all groups , Book Design!, Book History / Histoire du Livre, Books on Books, Bostonians, Bullying/Youth Violence, Cemeteries & Gravestones, Cutter, reloaded, EmilyDickinson, Epistemology, Evolve!, Faith and Reason, Fitchburg Public Library, Formal Verse, Genealogy@LT, Hellas, Heraldry, History of the Book, Homer, the Trojan war, and pre-classical Greece, Hymnbooks, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Indo-European (and PIE) Folklore & Mythology, INFOCOM (& beyond...), INTJ, LibraryThing Community Outreach, Lingua Latina, Literature & Madness, Mac Users at LibraryThing, Maps and Atlases, Massachusetts Genealogy, Medieval manuscripts, Museum!, New England Genealogy, Numismatics, Oxonians, Philosophy and Theory, Philosophy of Science, Pilgrims and Puritans, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Reformed Theology, Science Fiction Fans, Single Booklovers, Stalking Tim & Company, Sustainability, T.S. Eliot, The Diogenes Club, The Gene Pool, Things found in books, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds, Too Obscure, Treehuggers, Typography, U of Chicago College alumni and other Great Books Geeks, USERS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Veritas, Web applications, Web Developers!, webmasters, Wir Philologen

Favorite authorsEmily Dickinson, Paul K. Feyerabend, Ernst Mayr, Jonathan Shay, Stephen Edelston Toulmin (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesFitchburg Public Library (The Wallace Library), Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Hazen Memorial Library, Houghton Library, Library of Alexandria, Library of Congress, Memory Alpha, New England Historic Genealogical Society

About me"For I bless God in the libraries of the learned, and for all the booksellers in the world."

About my libraryPrincipal areas represented: systematics and evolutionary biology, natural history, New England genealogy, the history and theory of the historical sciences, English and American poetry, Classics and ancient Greek numismatics, and Oxbridge-style residential colleges within larger universities. Authors specially represented: Emily Dickinson, Ernst Mayr, Stephen Toulmin. Also available: notes on the Library of Congress subject headings relating to the historical sciences.

LIBRARYTHING EXHIBIT: CALL NUMBER CLOUDS

Call number clouds provide an unequalled window into a collection, and because they are based on standard "tags" (the LC call numbers) they make all collections comparable. Although these "proof-of-concept" examples have been created by manual tagging, it should be possible in the future to have LT create call number clouds automatically. (Dewey call number clouds should be possible as well.)

Examples of call number clouds:

• rjohara
• sunny

(In these examples, disregard the other generic tags created by each user; it isn't yet possible to separate out the call number tags as a distinct group.)

LIBRARYTHING EXHIBIT: CALL NUMBER SORTING

LC call numbers are complex and don't immediately lend themselves to automated sorting. It is possible to get LT to sort LC call numbers correctly by padding them out with blanks so that the initial alpha-numeric classes are always the same length. Here is an example:

• RJO's "books about books" (class Z, in descending order)

It should be possible in the future for LT to parse LC call numbers in such a way that all users will be able to sort their collections by LC call number without manual padding.

HOUSE STYLE NOTES

Over time I intend to put many of the provenance, holdings, binding, and other notes I have recorded into a standard format that references the appropriate MARC field:

General note (500): element ; element. — Holdings note (590): RJO has element ; element. — Provenance (561): element ; element. — Binding note (563): element ; element.

RESOURCES FOR SERIOUS AMATEUR CATALOGERS

• ABAA glossary of book terms

• Public drafts of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials, the forthcoming revision of the standard reference Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (1991) [Seems to be unavailable at the moment]

• Library of Congress online Cataloger's Reference Shelf

• Brief listing of common MARC fields

• Complete list of MARC fields

• Provenance notes in MARC via field 561$a

• OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards

Homepagehttp://rjohara.net

Real nameBob O’Hara

LocationMassachusetts

Emailrjoharapost.harvard.edu

Account typepublic, lifetime

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URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/rjohara (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rjohara (library)

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Member sinceNov 26, 2005