Someone please tell me not to start editing my individual entries and editing them to MARC standard.
Simon: The decision saved your life. Zoe: Won't happen again, sir. Mal: Good. And thanks. I'm grateful. Zoe: It was my pleasure, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2007 1:55:21 pm PDT #2230 of 28175
brillig
brenda m - Mar 17, 2007 1:56:16 pm PDT #2231 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Connie, we share a brain.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2007 1:58:43 pm PDT #2232 of 28175
brillig
Connie, we share a brain
I'm itching to correct capitalization. Fortunately, there's no real place to put 440 tags.
brenda m - Mar 17, 2007 2:00:18 pm PDT #2233 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's exactly what I've spent the last half hour doing. It's giving me a headache. I have to stop.
meara - Mar 17, 2007 2:58:17 pm PDT #2234 of 28175
What is Marc standard? Or is it better that I not know?
573 books (579, but I've got a few doubles [EDIT: whoops, found a few more. Make that 575. And I think I have a couple in the car...]). It doesn't SEEM like it's that big a number, really...and knowing that only maybe half to two-thirds of those are books I really like....huh. Perversely, that makes me feel MORE willing to go buy books.
See, I think I was unduly influenced as an impressionable pre-teen. One of my friends had me over to her house, and her stepdad had a library room. Which was shelves on three sides of a room (probably 8 by 8). Floor to ceiling. Basically filled with *exactly* the sort of books I enjoyed reading (scifi and fantasy). I was SO JEALOUS. Becuase of course, he wasn't about to lend his books to some random 12 year old friend of his stepdaughter's. But SHE *lived there*. She could read them any time she wanted! So jealous.
Someday, someday I will have that library...
Sue - Mar 17, 2007 3:12:10 pm PDT #2235 of 28175
hip deep in pie
Marc is the coding that catalogers to make their catalog records readable in different computer library catalogs.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2007 3:59:45 pm PDT #2236 of 28175
brillig
re: MARC standard.
I spent ten of my happiest working years doing retrospective conversion for a company that converts physical card catalogs to computerized catalogs.
There are conventions for punctuation and capitalization and order of information, and I still make notations of books using those conventions. Not the most generally useful skill.
I can read catalogue cards in nearly all the European languages and Latin, used to be able to transliterate Cyrillic and Greek on the fly, and take a fairly confident stab at converting old Miss Grundy's personalized cataloging system into standard. I was the resident expert on Catholicism and medieval/Renaissance history and more than once had to tell people that Pope, Christopher was more than likely referring to the writer, not a resident of the Papal throne.
Yeah, I miss it.
sumi - Mar 18, 2007 4:44:31 am PDT #2237 of 28175
Art Crawl!!!
Ooh, there's a new annotated Pride and Prejudice . . . three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
sj - Mar 18, 2007 4:47:06 am PDT #2238 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ooh, there's a new annotated Pride and Prejudice . . . three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
Of course not. I have at least four copies, and now I want that one too.
Kate P. - Mar 18, 2007 7:05:39 am PDT #2239 of 28175
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I went ahead and added my name to the Buffista LibraryThing group -- I'm risingtide, for them that's curious. Don't know when I'll get around to actually putting in more books, but this gives me a little more incentive now.