Re: Donating Debian CDs to libraries
I've just had a discussion like this with my local librarian. Reviewing the
following e-mail leads me to believe I have claimed too much.
At 02:26 PM 5/27/2003 -0500, Aaron J.Enright wrote:
Hello.
I am a librarian, and this is a swell idea. Here are answers to your
questions:
>Is there any cataloguing information for the Debian CD collections
>(past or present) available?
Yes. The cds themselves have the needed information in (or on)
them. What other information is needed can be easily found at the Debian
wesite. To make the gathering of this information easier on the
cataloguer, I highly recommend donating to the library an official Debian
cdrom set (http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/). In addition to making the
cataloguer's job a little easier, the sight of official cds should help
ease fears the librarians may have of adding (what we know but they
probably don't know isn't) bootlegged software to their collection.
Coupla flaws here: It is not clear to me where this catalog information is
on the CDs or what it looks like. A more specific pointer would be appreciated.
>How does one go about generating that sort of
>information, or do libraries do the job themselves?
In a good chunk of the English-speaking world the Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules (read its exciting history
here: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/history.html) governs the gathering and
presenting of this information. It is a rather detailed process, and
there are heaps of librarians (the above mentioned cataloguers) who
specialize in it.
I hope this helps.
cheers
-aaron
This pointer has expired and there is no obvious place on the National
Library of Canada web page to start looking.
Is there a librarian on this list who has cataloged a CD?
Regards, Gordon
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