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...
Marc is the coding that catalogers to make their catalog records readable in different computer library catalogs.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
Sumi, there was an article in the Globe and Mail this weekend that talks about the new round of Austen interest. One thing I thought was interesting was that they are republishing the books with covers to attract teenage girls, and the new biopic, Jane Austen in Love (or soemthing like that) is being targeted to the same demographic. I guess it makes sense, most people are probably introduced to Jane Austen in their teens, but it still strikes me as odd.
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three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Dracula
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Something Wicked This Way Comes
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Tanith Lee's Blood Opera trilogy.
Um, of course not?
I have three copies of "A Year On The Killing streets."
One hardback, one beat-to-death soft cover, and the new reissued Anniversary one.
You mean the movie "Becoming Jane Austen?"
I did a quick Amazon check and the book isn't new -- it's just newly out in paperback which is even better for me and my lack of funds.
