#catalogs — Public Fediverse posts

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “OFS Observatory Archive TAP service” by AISAS LSO team
http://193.87.1.40:8080/__system__/tap/run/info
#VirtualObservatories #Catalogs

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “DeepDive + DJA QG catalog” by Ito K. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/710/A364
#Spectroscopy #InfraredSources #Catalogs #Galaxies

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Major merger classification in COSMOS-Web” by La Marca A. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/708/A373
#StellarMasses #Redshifted #Catalogs #Galaxies

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “REGALADE, a revised galaxy compilation” by Tranin H. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/706/A284
#BroadBandPhotometry #Galaxies #Catalogs #InfraredPhotometry

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Infrared and optical emission-line diagnostics” by Durre M.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/542/3315
#Catalogs #VisibleAstronomy #InfraredSources #Spectroscopy

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “SHARDS/CANDELS faint galaxies in GOODS-N” by Merida R.M. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/950/125
#Catalogs #HstPhotometry #ChemicalAbundances #Extinction

It’s Friday, Let’s Read: catalogs & books

Last month, Allie Alvis (Book Historia on social media, check her website) shared two catalogs, from the Winterthur Library, that anyone can access at Internet Archive.

One is an illustrated catalog on revolving bookcases:

Danner’s revolving book cases (1884?)

I started to search for “bookcases” at Internet Archive between 1890 and 1910 and you can also go down that rabbit hole: you’ll find long gone patents about the construction of bookshelves and even magazines with advice, like Work. If you don’t restrict by date, you can also find manuals you can borrow to also learn how to build bookcases (didn’t find a revolving one, though). From here to writing desks, like the ones used in Jane Austen’s time, and reading stands is a small step. This is quite dangerous since soon enough you’ll be thinking about buying some wood and DIY.

The other is precisely a catalog of reading stands (we now have them for ereaders, with remote control):

Holloway reading stand and dictionary holder (1892?)

And since we’re talking about books and bookcases, I’m adding to the pile two books from Project Gutenberg you can read right here, right now:

Gossip in the library by Edmund Gosse (1891). LibriVox also has the audiobook and you can read about Gosse at Wikipedia. In this collection of essays, Gosse goes through several books to talk about libraries and book collectors. You can also head to Internet Archive to check some of those books like The Herbal or General History of Plants (1633).

“Such a man is liable to great temptations. He is brought face to face with that enemy of his species, the borrower, and dares not speak with him in the gate. If he had a book-plate he would say, “Oh! certainly I will lend you this volume, if it has not my book-plate in it; of course, one makes a rule never to lend a book that has.” He would say this, and feign to look inside the volume, knowing right well that this safeguard against the borrower is there already. To have a book-plate gives a collector great serenity and self-confidence.” – Edmund Gosse

The private library, what we do know, what we don’t know, what we ought to know about our books by Arthur L. Humphreys (1897)

And I must say this is a favorite: Humphreys goes through all the aspects of creating a library. From what is a good edition to the art of reading, but also talks about the care of books and their classification, without forgetting bookcases: “The chief faults of bookcases arise from their being designed and made by men who have never used a book.”

Have a wonderful reading weekend!

#ArthurLHumphreys #BookCollectors #Bookcases #BookLook #books #Bookshelves #catalogs #EdmundGosse #fiction #libraries #Library #OldBooks #PrivateLibrary #publicDomain #reading #ReadingStands #revolvingBookcases #writing

It’s Friday, Let’s Read: catalogs & books

Last month, Allie Alvis (Book Historia on social media, check her website) shared two catalogs, from the Winterthur Library, that anyone can access at Internet Archive.

One is an illustrated catalog on revolving bookcases:

Danner’s revolving book cases (1884?)

I started to search for “bookcases” at Internet Archive between 1890 and 1910 and you can also go down that rabbit hole: you’ll find long gone patents about the construction of bookshelves and even magazines with advice, like Work. If you don’t restrict by date, you can also find manuals you can borrow to also learn how to build bookcases (didn’t find a revolving one, though). From here to writing desks, like the ones used in Jane Austen’s time, and reading stands is a small step. This is quite dangerous since soon enough you’ll be thinking about buying some wood and DIY.

The other is precisely a catalog of reading stands (we now have them for ereaders, with remote control):

Holloway reading stand and dictionary holder (1892?)

And since we’re talking about books and bookcases, I’m adding to the pile two books from Project Gutenberg you can read right here, right now:

Gossip in the library by Edmund Gosse (1891). LibriVox also has the audiobook and you can read about Gosse at Wikipedia. In this collection of essays, Gosse goes through several books to talk about libraries and book collectors. You can also head to Internet Archive to check some of those books like The Herbal or General History of Plants (1633).

“Such a man is liable to great temptations. He is brought face to face with that enemy of his species, the borrower, and dares not speak with him in the gate. If he had a book-plate he would say, “Oh! certainly I will lend you this volume, if it has not my book-plate in it; of course, one makes a rule never to lend a book that has.” He would say this, and feign to look inside the volume, knowing right well that this safeguard against the borrower is there already. To have a book-plate gives a collector great serenity and self-confidence.” – Edmund Gosse

The private library, what we do know, what we don’t know, what we ought to know about our books by Arthur L. Humphreys (1897)

And I must say this is a favorite: Humphreys goes through all the aspects of creating a library. From what is a good edition to the art of reading, but also talks about the care of books and their classification, without forgetting bookcases: “The chief faults of bookcases arise from their being designed and made by men who have never used a book.”

Have a wonderful reading weekend!

#ArthurLHumphreys #BookCollectors #Bookcases #BookLook #books #Bookshelves #catalogs #EdmundGosse #fiction #libraries #Library #OldBooks #PrivateLibrary #publicDomain #reading #ReadingStands #revolvingBookcases #writing

It’s Friday, Let’s Read: catalogs & books

Last month, Allie Alvis (Book Historia on social media, check her website) shared two catalogs, from the Winterthur Library, that anyone can access at Internet Archive.

One is an illustrated catalog on revolving bookcases:

Danner’s revolving book cases (1884?)

I started to search for “bookcases” at Internet Archive between 1890 and 1910 and you can also go down that rabbit hole: you’ll find long gone patents about the construction of bookshelves and even magazines with advice, like Work. If you don’t restrict by date, you can also find manuals you can borrow to also learn how to build bookcases (didn’t find a revolving one, though). From here to writing desks, like the ones used in Jane Austen’s time, and reading stands is a small step. This is quite dangerous since soon enough you’ll be thinking about buying some wood and DIY.

The other is precisely a catalog of reading stands (we now have them for ereaders, with remote control):

Holloway reading stand and dictionary holder (1892?)

And since we’re talking about books and bookcases, I’m adding to the pile two books from Project Gutenberg you can read right here, right now:

Gossip in the library by Edmund Gosse (1891). LibriVox also has the audiobook and you can read about Gosse at Wikipedia. In this collection of essays, Gosse goes through several books to talk about libraries and book collectors. You can also head to Internet Archive to check some of those books like The Herbal or General History of Plants (1633).

“Such a man is liable to great temptations. He is brought face to face with that enemy of his species, the borrower, and dares not speak with him in the gate. If he had a book-plate he would say, “Oh! certainly I will lend you this volume, if it has not my book-plate in it; of course, one makes a rule never to lend a book that has.” He would say this, and feign to look inside the volume, knowing right well that this safeguard against the borrower is there already. To have a book-plate gives a collector great serenity and self-confidence.” – Edmund Gosse

The private library, what we do know, what we don’t know, what we ought to know about our books by Arthur L. Humphreys (1897)

And I must say this is a favorite: Humphreys goes through all the aspects of creating a library. From what is a good edition to the art of reading, but also talks about the care of books and their classification, without forgetting bookcases: “The chief faults of bookcases arise from their being designed and made by men who have never used a book.”

Have a wonderful reading weekend!

#ArthurLHumphreys #BookCollectors #Bookcases #BookLook #books #Bookshelves #catalogs #EdmundGosse #fiction #libraries #Library #OldBooks #PrivateLibrary #publicDomain #reading #ReadingStands #revolvingBookcases #writing

It’s Friday, Let’s Read: catalogs & books

Last month, Allie Alvis (Book Historia on social media, check her website) shared two catalogs, from the Winterthur Library, that anyone can access at Internet Archive.

One is an illustrated catalog on revolving bookcases:

Danner’s revolving book cases (1884?)

I started to search for “bookcases” at Internet Archive between 1890 and 1910 and you can also go down that rabbit hole: you’ll find long gone patents about the construction of bookshelves and even magazines with advice, like Work. If you don’t restrict by date, you can also find manuals you can borrow to also learn how to build bookcases (didn’t find a revolving one, though). From here to writing desks, like the ones used in Jane Austen’s time, and reading stands is a small step. This is quite dangerous since soon enough you’ll be thinking about buying some wood and DIY.

The other is precisely a catalog of reading stands (we now have them for ereaders, with remote control):

Holloway reading stand and dictionary holder (1892?)

And since we’re talking about books and bookcases, I’m adding to the pile two books from Project Gutenberg you can read right here, right now:

Gossip in the library by Edmund Gosse (1891). LibriVox also has the audiobook and you can read about Gosse at Wikipedia. In this collection of essays, Gosse goes through several books to talk about libraries and book collectors. You can also head to Internet Archive to check some of those books like The Herbal or General History of Plants (1633).

“Such a man is liable to great temptations. He is brought face to face with that enemy of his species, the borrower, and dares not speak with him in the gate. If he had a book-plate he would say, “Oh! certainly I will lend you this volume, if it has not my book-plate in it; of course, one makes a rule never to lend a book that has.” He would say this, and feign to look inside the volume, knowing right well that this safeguard against the borrower is there already. To have a book-plate gives a collector great serenity and self-confidence.” – Edmund Gosse

The private library, what we do know, what we don’t know, what we ought to know about our books by Arthur L. Humphreys (1897)

And I must say this is a favorite: Humphreys goes through all the aspects of creating a library. From what is a good edition to the art of reading, but also talks about the care of books and their classification, without forgetting bookcases: “The chief faults of bookcases arise from their being designed and made by men who have never used a book.”

Have a wonderful reading weekend!

#ArthurLHumphreys #BookCollectors #Bookcases #BookLook #books #Bookshelves #catalogs #EdmundGosse #fiction #libraries #Library #OldBooks #PrivateLibrary #publicDomain #reading #ReadingStands #revolvingBookcases #writing

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “EDGE-CALIFA Survey. iEDGE.” by Colombo D. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/699/A366
#LineIntensities #Catalogs #Galaxies #ChemicalAbundances

#BIBFRAME without BIBFRAME: The infrastructure of next-generation #cataloging workflows

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07317131.2025.2512281#d1e172

#libraries #catalogs #LOD #linkeddata #Marc21 #MARC #metadata #RDF #standards

#BIBFRAME without BIBFRAME: The infrastructure of next-generation #cataloging workflows

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07317131.2025.2512281#d1e172

#libraries #catalogs #LOD #linkeddata #Marc21 #MARC #metadata #RDF #standards

Classification as Colonization: Hidden Politics of #Library #Catalogs Mike Olson discusses why, how library catalogs have always been battlegrounds where content is not merely described but debated.Trump’s 1/20/25 EO directing renaming of longstanding geo designations “Mount Denali” & “Gulf of Mexico” to politically loaded “Mount McKinley” & “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what #cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered https://www.llrx.com/2025/04/classification-as-colonization-the-hidden-politics-of-library-catalogs/

This catalog cover is more stunning than it has any right to be — the Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book 1974

#design #art #artdirection #designer #artist #artdirector #neimanmarcus #christmas #xmas #catalogs #retail #fashion #style

#BIBFRAME dilemmas for #libraries: Challenges and opportunities
By Richard Wallis

https://blog.metaphacts.com/bibframe-dilemmas-for-libraries-challenges-and-opportunities

#linkeddata #LOD #metadata #semanticweb #librarycatalogs #catalogs #MARC

#BIBFRAME dilemmas for #libraries: Challenges and opportunities
By Richard Wallis

https://blog.metaphacts.com/bibframe-dilemmas-for-libraries-challenges-and-opportunities

#linkeddata #LOD #metadata #semanticweb #librarycatalogs #catalogs #MARC

Claim:
#Sears' #mailorder #catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered #dogs, #ponies, #monkeys, and other #animals for purchase.

Rating:
True

Sears offered #liveanimals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular #TikTok videos — did not include animals for sale.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sears-catalog-animals-monkeys/

Claim:
#Sears' #mailorder #catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered #dogs, #ponies, #monkeys, and other #animals for purchase.

Rating:
True

Sears offered #liveanimals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular #TikTok videos — did not include animals for sale.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sears-catalog-animals-monkeys/

#loompanics unlimited was a very interesting #bookseller selling #books , many of which would get you in a trouble - back in the day possibly, in these days almost certainly.
However, their #Catalogs contained a lot of great #writing . #goldenrecords is one of three (if I remember correctly...or four in total?) #compilations of these #articles . And even when outdated, still entertaining.
Recommended for the inner #rebel in you.
#compilation #dangerousbooks

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

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