go home library catalogs you are drunk
Am currently working on an assignment for my information organization course. We are supposed to select two books, a non-fiction and a fiction title (oh don't even get me started on the very thin line between non-fiction and fiction), and then look up the records for each title in WorldCat and LibraryThing. Compare and contrast the two records, apply what you've learned throughout the quarter, etc. etc.While I love LibraryThing for keeping track of my personal collection, I haven't found it very informative. It's more of a library social network. And WorldCat is just a hot mess. Completely drunk. Although I've learned how to navigate the catalog a little better, it's still rather frustrating to locate known items. And I'm a MLIS student!
Today while working on said assignment, I came across this "summary" of
Let's break this down a bit. "Emotions and thoughts of a woman..." Okay that's a good start. "...on the day she meets the man she loved, but did not marry" Wait what? I know that the book takes place on the day when Clarissa runs into Peter but THIS SUMMARY MAKES THE BOOK SOUND LIKE A TRAGIC LOVE STORY AND NO SHE ALSO LOVED SALLY AND RICHARD JUST DIFFERENTLY AND WHAT ABOUT SEPTIMUS AND WORLD WAR I AND IT'S SO MUCH MORE COMPLICATED AND BEAUTIFUL THAN THIS and okay rant over. Virginia Woolf would be ashamed WorldCat.
Ahem, sorry about that. I have a lot of feelings about Mrs. Dalloway. Also library catalogs. And why they don't function well enough. Fortunately for me, I am not destined to be the world's next great information organization guru. Unfortunately for me, I still want to complete a facet analysis of my book collection and create my own individual classification system.
#libraryschoolproblems?
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