Library science - Topics

Annotated versus enumerative bibliography: what each is actually for Why citation tracking misses scholarship published in languages other than English Why bibliographies of people include ephemera such as pamphlets and interviews How archival finding aids differ from the published bibliography of a person Why a bibliography of a person must separate works by them from works about them Why a definitive bibliography of a living author can never be finished Why nineteenth-century machine paper shortened the life of printed books Why pseudonyms and legal name changes break an author bibliography Using national bibliographies and library catalogues to trace an obscure publication How DOI and ORCID identifiers changed the compiling of author bibliographies How to compile a bibliography of everything one author has written Why alphabetical sorting of names fails for cultures that have no surnames The problem of attributions that turn out to be wrong decades later What descriptive bibliography records that a library catalogue does not What watermark evidence can date a printed sheet Who decides which manuscripts get digitized first Why a facsimile cannot reproduce paper and ink Open access article processing charges land on the library budget Why a book's format counts folds rather than inches Ebook licensing eats collection budgets and the library never owns the file How a collation formula proves that a copy is complete Librarians and archivists do humanities work without anyone calling them humanists What a city's branch libraries say about which neighborhoods it values Why museums and archives describe the same object with incompatible metadata Copyright clearance blocks more digitization than scanning equipment ever did Dewey or Library of Congress: why public libraries almost never reclassify Weeding the print collection for study seats and the donor who notices Prison libraries and the titles that never get approved Makerspaces get funded and the 3D printer sits idle by the second year Migrating to a new library system and what twenty years of holds and fines lose Discovery layers return everything and the reference interview disappears Finding aids written for archivists are close to unusable for the people who need the papers