Curiosities of the Catalogue

[s***@COMCAST.NET]

Not a library story - but at a bookstore on Guam in the 1970s or 1980s I took a two volume set on African-American history, _Men of Color_, to the cashier - explaining to her that this set did not really belong in the photography section...

-Shelby Shapiro
Dept. of American Studies
University of Maryland-College Park

[Erin Blake]

We had a problem (now corrected!) when automated authority control transformed any Shakespeare character name that happened also to be a place name into a Geographic heading. In other words, "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Constance" became "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Germany--Konstanz"

Also, a few years ago Amazon.com turned Niccolo Machiavelli into a Scotsman by the name of MacHiavelli (as a thank-you for pointing out the error, they sent an Amazon.com mug).

-- Erin.

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Erin C. Blake, Ph.D.
Curator of Art & Special Collections
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 E. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003-1094
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[Helen Ryan]

The LC subject heading "Holocaust, Jewish" rather startled me when I first came upon it. Mark it up to a careful cataloger hoping to provide for all future such events.

Helen Ryan
University of Iowa Libraries

Post by s***@COMCAST.NET
Not a library story - but at a bookstore on Guam in the 1970s or 1980s I took a
two volume set on African-American history, _Men of Color_, to the cashier -
explaining to her that this set did not really belong in the photography
section...
-Shelby Shapiro
Dept. of American Studies
University of Maryland-College Park

[John Renjilian]

Not just a careful forward-looking cataloger, rather a careful and accurate
cataloger with a sense of history. The Armenian massacres of 1915 are most
often described (except by the Turks) as the first attempted genocide of the
20th century, but the events are sometimes called the Armenian Holocaust.

John Renjilian

Post by Helen Ryan
The LC subject heading "Holocaust, Jewish" rather startled me when I first
came upon it. Mark it up to a careful cataloger hoping to provide for all
future such events.
Helen Ryan
University of Iowa Libraries