Library science - Topics

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