Michael of Rhodes Rediscovered: The Lost Book of a Medieval Mariner David McGee (Co-Director of the Michael of Rhodes Project, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Burndy Library, MIT) University of Toronto, October 20, 2006

David McGee from the Burndy Library at MIT presented to us the manuscript of Michael of Rhodes, a unique look […]

Staincliffe, Paul (2004) Has cataloguing become too simple? : why it matters for cataloguers, catalogues and clients. New Zealand libraries 49(10).

I love that I have only taken a month of cataloguing and I can understand every single word in this paper. Not only that, but I found it really interesting. Maybe I am […]

Staincliffe, Paul (2006) The nonsense of copyright in libraries : digital information and the right to copy. In Proceedings LIANZA Conference 2006, Wellington (New Zealand).

Abstract

The notion of copyright is deeply entrenched in the psyche of librarians, who remain one of the few groups who consistently support or uphold it. Given the growth of digital information […]

Now that I am becoming really interested in cataloguing, and given my comments in my last post, maybe it is because things are becoming too simple, the reason why classes are not challenging. Where is the 19th Century discussion of cataloging as a science?

Staincliffe, Paul (2004) Has cataloguing become too simple? : why it […]

I posted a rather long comment to this post at Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. It is a list of Library 2.0 skills they should be teaching in MLIS degrees. Given my current thoughts about my schooling, my comment I thought was appropriate:

I am currently in my first term of an Master’s of […]