I’ve been singing the praises of librarians managing DAMs, and I felt like I’d joined a choir when I watched Henry Stewart’s webinar, Lead with Librarians. Sponsored by Aldis and presented by Aldis Senior Librarian Phil Seibel and Digital Librarian Hannah Callahan, I found myself nodding and “mm-hmm”ing all the way through. A point they …
Last week I talked about the taxonomy I created for the philatelic library, and the tension between “aboutness” and “isness.” A question was brought up about filing a piece of ephemera by subject (“aboutness”), and how the patron might not be able to find that ephemera if they were approaching the topic differently, and were …
Taxonomies are taxonomies, whether they’re used for physical or digital files. With physical files, unless you photocopy and place an item in multiple folders, there is only one location – one folder – one taxonomy label – to which it belongs. Even if an item is conceptually “about” more than one thing, it only “is” …