September 11, 2007

The cataloguing hole

I am currently in a cataloguing hole. The accession I’m cataloguing is huge: 28 collections and at least 40 series (and counting!). Being in the hole means that I can’t properly concentrate on anything outside of the hole. My existence has been reduced to a stream of metadata fields and forms in endless succession.
I’ve also agreed to give a talk on how I’m applying ISAAR(CPF) to my cataloguing activities. So I need to find a space, within the hole, where I can think about authority records, their purpose and importance.