Library geeking for school and fun

This week’s assignment for one of my classes was a "pretend cataloging" kind of assignment: take three books we’d read, and assign them Library of Congress subject headings. I discovered that I gravitate to hard-to-classify books (James Elkins’ Pictures and Tears was the trickiest one; I still don’t get why "Crying," an honest-to-God LC subject heading, isn’t used for it), and that I’m actually looking forward to taking Cataloging when I get a chance. Next quarter it looks like I’m taking History of the Book (yay!) and Action Research and Statistics (not nearly as exciting, but hey, required). Expect a lot of profoundly geeky book-history-related posts in the coming months.

In my spare time, I noticed that LibraryThing added a new, enjoyably time-sinking feature: links to author-related sites on author pages. I’ve been having fun annotating the author pages for various poets; the Electronic Poetry Center, Modern American Poetry, and Poets.org have all come in handy.

In other news, Big End-of-Term Project #1 is pretty much finished, House is on tonight, I’m blogging from home on a now-functional wifi connection, and life, for the time being at least, is good.

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