Using my brain hurts

[auntiemeesh]

Wow, I now have more IT technobabble in my head than I ever thought I'd want or need (I think six chapters in two days is plenty, don't you?). Sadly, it has all been crammed in rather willy-nilly. Good thing I have another four days to get it all sorted out and properly affixed to something. Midterm on Thursday. Note to self - don't get so far behind in the reading again.

Tomorrow I get to start seriously figuring out what to do for the paper I have due on Wednesday. I love how the IT class and the Preservation class always seem to have major projects due at roughly the same time. This time around, I have to do a descriptive bibliography of five old or rare books. I'm a bit stuck at the collation part. I'm just not at all sure how to do that. The description of damage to the books I think I can do, as well as come up with some preservation suggestions, but I really haven't figured that whole collation thing out yet.

On a happy note, my regularly scheduled Monday morning class is not taking place tomorrow, so I don't have to get up at o dark hundred for class. yay.

*keeps eye on goal and refuses to think about how next semester is only going to be worse*

In other news, I watched lots of Lost today, getting caught up with the end of season two. Only three more eps to go - viewing for next weekend. :)

Comments

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Collation? You're not talking about the person who goes through and puts all the pages together in the right order for many, many copies of a book are you? That's the only kind of collation I've ever heard of (and I'm glad the photocopier does it for me these days!)

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

For the purposes of descriptive bibliography, which is what this assignment is, collation in the description of how the book is put together. Is it folio, quarto, duodecimo, etc (how many times the sheet is folded to make leaves and pages), how they are numbered, etc.

In old books, each sheet is marked with a separate letter or number (not the page numbers) which can be found on the bottom of the first page in a new section. So I've just spent the afternoon going through some books printed early twentieth century and counting pages until the next marker comes up, to see how many pages there are per sheet and writing them down. It looks something like this:

[a]7b-e8A-I8K-U8X-Z8; 223 leaves (each of the numbers should be a superscript but I don't know how to do that in lj).

[a] is an unmarked section at the front, b-e are title page, preface, introduction, etc. with roman numerals, and the book's paging starts at A with page 1.

I'm still not entirely sure I'm doing it right, but the prof seems flexible as long as we give a key for her to follow what we're doing, and I took my system straight out of an article she recommended.

[(Anonymous)]

sounds like a good plan to me! Good luck with it. ANM

[griffins-mom.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Looks awfully complicated to me. I hope things go well with both your projects this week!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Thanks