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.
Yeah, that's the movie I meant, Sumi. In the article they quote someone as saying that Anne Hathaway was cast because she's got a following among young female fans of the Princess Diaries, and those girls are all 15-16 now, and that's the target audience for the movie.
I just signed up for LibraryThing. I'm LarisaG. Just five books in, and there's already one where I'm the only user who owns it. (The Vegetarian Traveler. Basically, it's a few paragraphs for practically any country you might want to travel to about where and how to get vegetarian meals, plus how to say "I'm vegetarian" and "Do you have anything without meat?" and similar things in about 100 different languages.)
