Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

You know your library school education is really taking when you start having dreams about the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).

I noticed this afternoon while I was scanning through my library feeds that MODS 3.2 had just gone final. I immediately fired up my XML editor to take a look, which leads me to believe that after a little under a year and a half in school, my transformation into some sort of librarian is […]

Windsor McCay, Daydreams and Nightmares.
Flipping through the book before I cataloged it, I noticed the similarities between McCay’s illustrations of flying machines and Miyazaki’s, particularly in Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky. A quick search revealed that not only had that observation been noted before, but that Miyazaki had actually received the Windsor McCay […]

I promise a return to regular posting and what happens? Nothing at all, for which I apologize.
All is well up here in Chambana. It’s hard to believe, but I’m already almost halfway through the semester, and those major projects that were looming in the distance a month ago are almost on top of me. One […]

Starting Monday (and interrupted only by Thanksgiving), I’ll be taking up a week-long residence at Hartford Coffee Company in beautiful Tower Grove South. I’ll be working on my final projects for Digital Libraries and Interface Design, but I always have time to chat with my friends, so drop on by.
On a totally different subject, I […]

More interesting books crossing my cataloging desk today:

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 12, Ceramic Technology, a hefty $195 at Barnes & Noble.
Women in Space: Follow Valentina, a much more reasonable $39.95.

I’m dealing with a bit of information overload right now as classes wind down and end-of-the-semester projects pile […]

In lieu of an actual post, I offer list of books I cataloged today:

Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention (303.64096 Is11, Education Library)
Participatory Rural Appraisal: Methods and Applications in Rural Planning (307.14120954 P2583 2004)
The Bangladesh Dichotomy and Politicisation of Culture (954.9205 B223b)
Experiencing History Through Archives: Restoration of Memory […]

Taking a short break from the China posting, I’d like to direct everyone’s attention to 025.431: The Dewey blog where, prompted by an email from the child wizard himself, they’re discussing where to list quidditch in the Dewey schedules.
Edit: And just for fun, here’s a photo a snapped at the Beijing Foreign Language Bookstore when […]

It’s been so long since I updated this site that I hardly know where to start. So we’ll start at the very beginning, which is indeed a very fine place to start:

Classes wrapped up the first week in May, and despite not having taken an exam in ten years or so (aside from a driving […]