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New job Sep 12

I was, perhaps, insufficiently geeky.

Cataloguing and classifying may have a certain bibliogeek chic to them, but I have spurned Scott Walker’s demands and chosen the best of both worlds. As I mentioned a few weeks back, I was until last week seconded to work on the systems side of the library. Following a successful application and interview, I am, as of today, permanently assigned to the techy side of things. Job title and money are the same but I have shifted desks, which proves it’s a different job. Unix, XSLT, SQL, HTML – with MARC21 and DDC thrown in for good measure. Hurrah for acronyms. Not including BOFH, of course 🙂

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SCABS Aug 17

Acronym of the day: SCABS – the Scottish Consortium for Academic Book Supply.

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Deliverance Aug 16

From this latest weekly lists of Library of Congress Subject Headings/DDC mappings, an entry twenty-one digits long:

Rednecks in motion pictures          791.436526230975091734

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Choppy sea Aug 05

I was tidying the library’s name authority file today and came across this gem of a name entry:

Choppy, C.

Alas, I had to change it to “Choppy, C. (Christine)”. It doesn’t take much to amuse me…

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