Library Cataloging
I'm currently reading The Fine Art of Small Talk by Debra Fine. It opens by discussing the importance of small talk to professionals. The dentist, hairdresser, realtor, salesperson often use small talk to establish a rapport with the client. Many professional encounters such as interviews also begin with small talk.I'm a cataloger, not a reference librarian. However, I have worked the reference desk. I tried to avoid small talk with the patrons; I focused on their information needs. Maybe, some chatting as we went back to the stacks to get the materials might have been more productive. "Such an interesting Tattoo, what's its meaning?" As I think about it, the more professional encounters include small talk while the fast food sale is apt to exclude it. Do good reference librarians use small talk to connect with their users? Should we? This is something I do not remember being addressed in library school, but the details are fading. I am nearing my 10th year out of school.
- Electronic Resources And Libraries
Slides and audio for most presentations at ER&L 2009 will be available.UCLA is a beautiful campus. A wide variety of trees, hills, and open spaces. Some of the rooms were a bit small for the meetings. Once I had miss a talk I wanted to hear because there...
- Trade Literature
The RLG forum had the talk Trade literature by Mary Augusta Thomas discussing catalogs at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Fascinating collection and talk. I'd never thought about all the possible uses old catalogs could serve. Then a couple...
- Be Back Monday
Friday is a holiday here in the states, Veteran's Day. Saturday I give my talk about Free MARC Tools at the TLA District 8 Conference. Hope to see some readers there. So this weblog will be quiet until Monday. I have posted an MP3 of my talk on OurMedia....
- This Weblog
I've been thinking of making a change to this weblog. The lists of standards and MARC tools along the right side could be FURLed and then a listing in the index could just point to that tag. Any problems with that? It would clean up the sidebar a...
- Sla 2005 Talk
Part 2 of the talk. Comments? Suggestions? Funny how I keep getting asked to talk about weblogs, but never about cataloging. SLA2005...
Library Cataloging
Reference
I'm currently reading The Fine Art of Small Talk by Debra Fine. It opens by discussing the importance of small talk to professionals. The dentist, hairdresser, realtor, salesperson often use small talk to establish a rapport with the client. Many professional encounters such as interviews also begin with small talk.I'm a cataloger, not a reference librarian. However, I have worked the reference desk. I tried to avoid small talk with the patrons; I focused on their information needs. Maybe, some chatting as we went back to the stacks to get the materials might have been more productive. "Such an interesting Tattoo, what's its meaning?" As I think about it, the more professional encounters include small talk while the fast food sale is apt to exclude it. Do good reference librarians use small talk to connect with their users? Should we? This is something I do not remember being addressed in library school, but the details are fading. I am nearing my 10th year out of school.
- Electronic Resources And Libraries
Slides and audio for most presentations at ER&L 2009 will be available.UCLA is a beautiful campus. A wide variety of trees, hills, and open spaces. Some of the rooms were a bit small for the meetings. Once I had miss a talk I wanted to hear because there...
- Trade Literature
The RLG forum had the talk Trade literature by Mary Augusta Thomas discussing catalogs at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Fascinating collection and talk. I'd never thought about all the possible uses old catalogs could serve. Then a couple...
- Be Back Monday
Friday is a holiday here in the states, Veteran's Day. Saturday I give my talk about Free MARC Tools at the TLA District 8 Conference. Hope to see some readers there. So this weblog will be quiet until Monday. I have posted an MP3 of my talk on OurMedia....
- This Weblog
I've been thinking of making a change to this weblog. The lists of standards and MARC tools along the right side could be FURLed and then a listing in the index could just point to that tag. Any problems with that? It would clean up the sidebar a...
- Sla 2005 Talk
Part 2 of the talk. Comments? Suggestions? Funny how I keep getting asked to talk about weblogs, but never about cataloging. SLA2005...