What do Enworlders do in real life?

[ssampier]

And they look just like us. ANYone you know could be a librarian. Be aware.

i hat the Library of Congress. Dewey Decimal is the only true system.

 

[Sidekick]

The US is pretty restrictive with stem cell research if its human, so I'm forced to work with mice stem cells.

Yeah the British Govt is pretty harsh about it too. Uncle and Wilmot got the 2nd ever grant for human stem cell research - so its pretty big. He had the compulsory TV debates with the clergy etc.

And your post once again proved to me why I was never good at brain stuff in my psyc degree - I was following when you mentioned ventricles and the Hippocampus, after that its like a foreign language. Give me Cog Neuro anyday - that's all airfairy 'mind' stuff.

good luck with the research.

 

[Alenda]

(government documents being a very small part of the librarian pond).

Absolutely... In fact, there's a good chance I may have met your acquaintances if any of them attended the recent conference in Wilmington, NC "Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange 2006." Government docs librarians and archivists from all over the country were there.

Craftyrat, I'm not sure how a forum for librarian gamers would go, but feel free to start a thread. You can call it "Attention Librarians" or something silly like that and we can gripe about librarian stuff

ssampier, a cataloger would crucify you for saying that the Library of Congress cataloging system sucks. It's actually way more flexible and easier to use than the Dewey Decimal System. When Dewey was invented, a lot of book topics didn't exist (e.g. computers), so catalogers have had to squeeze those topics into a system that really didn't allow for much flexibility.

As an interesting aside, Duke University was (up until recently) the largest library in the country using the Dewey Decimal System. Their call numbers were 10 or 12 digits long and often times completely wrapped around the book's spine. They are finally in the process of migrating their call numbers to Library of Congress which is a monumental undertaking, but absolutely necessary if they want to keep their catalogers sane.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Absolutely... In fact, there's a good chance I may have met your acquaintances if any of them attended the recent conference in Wilmington, NC "Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange 2006." Government docs librarians and archivists from all over the country were there.

Is that where the Illuminati get together these days?

ssampier, a cataloger would crucify you for saying that the Library of Congress cataloging system sucks. It's actually way more flexible and easier to use than the Dewey Decimal System. When Dewey was invented, a lot of book topics didn't exist (e.g. computers), so catalogers have had to squeeze those topics into a system that really didn't allow for much flexibility.

So the newer LoC system is more flexible than the O.D.D. (Old Dewey Decimal) system.
It is good to know that librarians hat of ODD know no bounds.

As an interesting aside, Duke University was (up until recently) the largest library in the country using the Dewey Decimal System. Their call numbers were 10 or 12 digits long and often times completely wrapped around the book's spine. They are finally in the process of migrating their call numbers to Library of Congress which is a monumental undertaking, but absolutely necessary if they want to keep their catalogers sane.

I hear that even the Arkham Library system is simpler than the Dewey Decimal system (although it still drives catalogers insane).

 

[ssampier]

ssampier, a cataloger would crucify you for saying that the Library of Congress cataloging system sucks. It's actually way more flexible and easier to use than the Dewey Decimal System. When Dewey was invented, a lot of book topics didn't exist (e.g. computers), so catalogers have had to squeeze those topics into a system that really didn't allow for much flexibility.

It's fun to see a librarian get all worked up.

Sometimes I purposely put books back in the wrong order

 

[Kapture]

It's fun to see a librarian get all worked up.

Sometimes I purposely put books back in the wrong order

Which is why I'm always telling sweet little old ladies that some a$$hat must have put their book back in the wrong place. No skin off my nose that you're sending the world to hell in a handbasket.

Librarian. Public. Largish single building suburban institution. Head of adult and reference services.

I know that guy who works at a mall adult novelty store. He's hella cool.

I like Dewey Decimal for smaller setups. At the P(ublic)L(ibrary)A(ssociation) conferance this year, I listened to some wild chick who had set up her systems central library by raw subject classification. I thought that was ballsy. You academic types, with your fancy schmancy Library of Congress "system," are all going to be replaced by metatags and brains in a jar as soon as the Brits perfect the brain-computer interface, anyways.

I also met a chick at PLA who'd started a librarians-in-gaming website. Need to find her card.

I've been published exactly three times by the gaming industry, twice for games that no longer exist, once in Dungeon. I have no desire, anymore, to write professionally for the gaming industry, because I think of eating as a valuable pastime.

 

[ssampier]

Which is why I'm always telling sweet little old ladies that some a$$hat must have put their book back in the wrong place. No skin off my nose that you're sending the world to hell in a handbasket.

Just in case you're wondering I really don't put books back. I place them on the shelving carts like a good patron.



I rarely go to the public library anymore; there's never any books I need there. Luckily I can research on their website before I waste a trek over.

 

[Kwitchit]

Among others. Also worked for SEA and a number of other boats that run shorter, localized programs on the U.S. East Coast.

Where are you ATM? I'll be on an Ocean Classroom ship this summer as a student.

And as for the captain idea, my cousin (who did it for a long period in Greece) got me into it.

 

[Shemeska]

I'm a professor of Neurobiology at a university in Springfield MO, as well as doing research on stem cell replacement in the brain and central nervous system. I also teach some nursing classes for a local nursing school during the evenings.

Embryonic or adult origin? [Nevermind, I saw your other post]

I'm involved with two different adult origin stem cell projects in my job.

 

[Shemeska]

Nope, I didn't really have any trouble with the fraud claims. The US is pretty restrictive with stem cell research if its human, so I'm forced to work with mice stem cells.

Yay for not being on government funding and thus not having those same restrictions I don't agree with the restrictions, and would love to see them lifted, but admittedly (and perhaps sadly) the the current restrictions are more permissive in some ways than the Clinton era state of funding for such.

Of course, all of our stuff is adult origin anyways at the moment, so this doesn't directly impact me.