Did the Whole Library Handbook (in any of its wonderful editions) cover Library Hand? In my world of being a radio operator we work on "passing traffic" (communications) in a legible way and it is interesting that Dewey got inspiration for Library Hand from our favorite telegrapher, Edison.
The most patient librarian in the world tried to teach me Library Hand in 1991. She had allowed me to access the original German colonial records on Pohnpei in return for my cataloging anything I touched. My handwriting has been illegible since my first grade teacher insisted I was really left handed because no one could write that badly with his dominant hand. She finally settled for taking dictation.
Fascinating! Once you have poured over microfilmed pages in a library tracing old deeds, documents, memos from the 1600-1800's time, you appreciate some effort to standardize. handwriting. Not so easy to retrain your mind. Today we find children who might be able to print, but cursive is no longer natural. Wonder how they will do should they wish to study the past.
Not that my work was like that of trained professionals in all the worlds mixed languages and writing forms.
Yes, this is so true. The National Archives is looking for help!
Welcome to our Citizen Archivist program. You can contribute to the National Archives Catalog by tagging, transcribing and adding comments to our records, making them more accessible and searchable. Join us! Every contribution you make helps unlock history.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Psalm 2:1-3
Who is Dr. Fauci and should you be concerned?
A theme that has so often reverberated in the production room at the Berean Beacon is how the Vatican Controls Through Civil Law. America is a Constitutional Republic and our laws are to be set within its framework. Never in American history have we observed the complete suspension of those rights by people holding government positions who have sworn to uphold them.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is a poster boy for the Roman Catholic Jesuit educational system. His academic curriculum vitae spans nearly two decades starting with Our Lady of Guadeloupe Grammar School in Brooklyn, NY. Fauci continued his Jesuit indoctrination at Regis High School, a no-tuition Jesuit college-prep school on New York City’s Upper East Side, renowned as an academic haven for gifted boys. Fauci was quoted as saying, “I went to Regis High School, a Jesuit high school, which had a major impact on my career even up to today.”
“Fauci often credits part of his professional success to the inculcation (indoctrination) of Jesuit intellectual rigor that was a core part of his education: an emphasis on organization and logic, on succinctness and clarity of expression. Arguably, the twinning of science and the humanities has proved useful in his dual roles as physician and researcher as well.” “He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, said to be the oldest Catholic college in New England, where he received a bachelor’s degree in the classics.”
Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he has held since 1984. This Jesuit trained deep state operative has been intimately involved in public affairs and policy for the past six presidential administrations. And now the world stands at the precipice of forced vaccination at the hands of a conglomerate of church, state and science so falsely called. “The World Health Organization, UNICEF, the National institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a collaboration to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a Global Vaccine Action Plan,” Dr. Anthony Fauci is strategically placed within the Leadership Council.
Jesuit Father, Daniel Lahart, president of Regis High School said this about Dr. Fauci….
“He’s got a relatively good poker face. But not all of the time”
I have been mulling over your advice to chop my MKULtra article into several parts. I have decided to leave it as is, After all, people read digital books that are longer than my article.
I like having all that information in one package.
I just added this to the comment section of the MKULtra article:
PARIS (AP) — An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a major report released Thursday that is France’s first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon....Read More
French report: 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse...
I am afraid that librarianship today is about metrics and views. Also (as we saw yesterday with the crash of some online sights)-- sustainability. You might consider, down the road, reposting some of your information as shorter pieces that refer back to this longer one. That said, I have some concern that Substack essays may disappear due to the fact that older posts seem to be less reachable. If you think an essay you have written should be preserved then I suggest you load it as a word doc. to the Wayback Machine (free). https://archive.org/web/
Yes, I have saved several of my articles to the Wayback Machine, MKUltra was one of them.
I have both a Wordpress blog and Substack.
i archive most of my important work to a word doc I used to convert stuff to PDF as well, but it is such a hassle. I have had three separate Wordpress accounts. I lost administration capabilities on the two older ones when my email addresses changed, but the blogs are still up on the Internet if you know the URL. I can also find them by typing my name and the term wordpress in my browser.
I have literally thousands of pages on the Internet in blogs now. They have all remained accessible up to this point.
But I agree the Wayback Machine is a wonderful service.
I see you have it covered. I think Substack doesn't yet look to be stable over time. They should work on that and also SE optimization. What you describe above is complex for many of us.
Because my place of work has what they call a repository for open access items I have that as a second back-up but it doesn't archive Substack posts. I noticed when I inserted a link to a Substack I did into a class that the link didn't connect (this was an April '21 post).
Got lost in the French Book Trade last night & that is going to take a while. I thought it funny that all my posts about destroyed libraries weren't as popular as yesterday on Library Hand.
Every SubStack writer ought to know this! Whatever you can do to spread the word. Some priceless history is being created via these citizen-journalists now that journalism has devolved into the swarm of drivel. I do know Google doesn't much care to index the pages.
Writers need to ensure their pages are captured by archive.org. I'm not sure how that is done but sociologists of the future might benefit particularly from the comments sections.
I used to frequent the Ontario Public Library in Ontario, California in the 1960s. They still had the card catalogs just like the one in the picture.
A serge of nostalgia came over me seeing that.
I went there a lot for high school research papers, and often found books on my personal interest as well, including volumes on the search for exotic animals such as the Yeti of the Himalayan mountains where the tales of the Sherpa's spoke of spectacular finds of skull caps of these animals. Western journalists and scientists reported on this, and took plaster castings of the Yeti footprints, that were published in the books I found at the library.
Yup, rubber stamped date cards were in envelopes pasted in the front page of the books
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. In the flash of the eye it is the 21st century, and digital madness prevails.
You would be astounded at the thousands of pages librarians have written figuring out cataloging--and it was a noble calling. Not to outstay my welcome here on librarianship but Gabriel Naudé (2 February 1600 – 10 July 1653)---was very influential--The Best Read Man in France.
The Bibliothèque Mazarine, or Mazarin Library, What an awesome place!!
Did you see THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, starring Mel Gibson as James Murray · Sean Penn as Dr. William Chester Minor · Natalie Dormer as Eliza Merrett?
A fascinating and wonderful film about the creation of the original Oxford Dictionary.
James Murray was an autodidact who taught himself everything he knew...which was quite substantial.
I knew you'd done a post on this but couldn't find it last night. I am going to go back and add this in. I got carried away when I spotted the Ukrainian article. That David Kaminski is doing fine work.
I would have flunked out of library school if I had to learn to write legibly. As it was, we were still forced to learn to type the various cards -- subject, author, shelf-list -- with the black/red ink ribbons and everything. My cataloging professor measured every line with his damn metal ruler. Dude! It was 1983! OCLC was a thing!
I love you still call it library school. I do too. But now I teach in a "School of Information" and the data scientists and digital humanities people we have hire look at me and wish I didn't say that. I guess "library school" hurts their image as information scientists. But where I went to school really WAS called the "Graduate Library School."
Yeah, InMyDay® Berkeley had the School of Library and Information Studies. Now it's the School of Information. Times change. Insert "Old Man Shouts At Cloud" meme here.
Synergy is not a word that I would associate with ALA's current corporate-style managers. Chicago's GLS had a split personality when I was there. I took a class by Herman Fussler (who was all about information theory) but the computer class I was required to take only showed us how to make a graph using IBM cards (this, after I had already been working with Hugh Atkinson's pioneering yet flawed Library Control System at Ohio State). Another prof did bring in the esteemed Jesse Shera to talk about his concept of the "generic book," which reminded me instantly of the Akashic Records of the theosophists.
You and Edward Cayce, of course. Agree on the shift of ALA. There was a time I knew most everyone. Now few are even librarians and you know the fight on the ED where we won the vote, lost the vote on %. I learned FORTRAN at GLA but has Asheim, Virgo and Rayward so maybe more of a connection to things than even a few terms later.
My first pt.time job I had to file on the rod. Then the supervising librarian would check my filing. And if it was correct would dramatically pull the rod and let the cards drop into place. I did miss out on Library Hand but you still see it on old book labels..and in some of the GK Hall photocopied card collections. Remember them? (this post may be too library-y--but preserving old catalogs is sort of in the zone for this substack.)
FYI friends, this post has gotten the most views of any of my posts (226). How funny. How wonderful.
I always thought "library hand" was a condition librarians got in the old days from rubber-stamping the date on countless circulating books.
Did the Whole Library Handbook (in any of its wonderful editions) cover Library Hand? In my world of being a radio operator we work on "passing traffic" (communications) in a legible way and it is interesting that Dewey got inspiration for Library Hand from our favorite telegrapher, Edison.
It may have been mentioned in passing, but I never had an article specifically on it in any of the five editions.
Now I realize I was looking for Larry Nix at Library History Buff and I added it to thie entry: https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/p/library-hand-dewey-and-edison
God, I miss those old card catalogue systems. I've never been able to navigate my way around a library since.
The most patient librarian in the world tried to teach me Library Hand in 1991. She had allowed me to access the original German colonial records on Pohnpei in return for my cataloging anything I touched. My handwriting has been illegible since my first grade teacher insisted I was really left handed because no one could write that badly with his dominant hand. She finally settled for taking dictation.
Fascinating! Once you have poured over microfilmed pages in a library tracing old deeds, documents, memos from the 1600-1800's time, you appreciate some effort to standardize. handwriting. Not so easy to retrain your mind. Today we find children who might be able to print, but cursive is no longer natural. Wonder how they will do should they wish to study the past.
Not that my work was like that of trained professionals in all the worlds mixed languages and writing forms.
Yes, this is so true. The National Archives is looking for help!
Welcome to our Citizen Archivist program. You can contribute to the National Archives Catalog by tagging, transcribing and adding comments to our records, making them more accessible and searchable. Join us! Every contribution you make helps unlock history.
https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Psalm 2:1-3
Who is Dr. Fauci and should you be concerned?
A theme that has so often reverberated in the production room at the Berean Beacon is how the Vatican Controls Through Civil Law. America is a Constitutional Republic and our laws are to be set within its framework. Never in American history have we observed the complete suspension of those rights by people holding government positions who have sworn to uphold them.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is a poster boy for the Roman Catholic Jesuit educational system. His academic curriculum vitae spans nearly two decades starting with Our Lady of Guadeloupe Grammar School in Brooklyn, NY. Fauci continued his Jesuit indoctrination at Regis High School, a no-tuition Jesuit college-prep school on New York City’s Upper East Side, renowned as an academic haven for gifted boys. Fauci was quoted as saying, “I went to Regis High School, a Jesuit high school, which had a major impact on my career even up to today.”
“Fauci often credits part of his professional success to the inculcation (indoctrination) of Jesuit intellectual rigor that was a core part of his education: an emphasis on organization and logic, on succinctness and clarity of expression. Arguably, the twinning of science and the humanities has proved useful in his dual roles as physician and researcher as well.” “He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, said to be the oldest Catholic college in New England, where he received a bachelor’s degree in the classics.”
Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he has held since 1984. This Jesuit trained deep state operative has been intimately involved in public affairs and policy for the past six presidential administrations. And now the world stands at the precipice of forced vaccination at the hands of a conglomerate of church, state and science so falsely called. “The World Health Organization, UNICEF, the National institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a collaboration to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a Global Vaccine Action Plan,” Dr. Anthony Fauci is strategically placed within the Leadership Council.
Jesuit Father, Daniel Lahart, president of Regis High School said this about Dr. Fauci….
“He’s got a relatively good poker face. But not all of the time”
https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=8e2f4c6ecbfced21110c5220a&id=1cad8d9988
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Good morning Kathleen,
I have been mulling over your advice to chop my MKULtra article into several parts. I have decided to leave it as is, After all, people read digital books that are longer than my article.
I like having all that information in one package.
I just added this to the comment section of the MKULtra article:
PARIS (AP) — An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a major report released Thursday that is France’s first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon....Read More
French report: 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse...
--Willy
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I am afraid that librarianship today is about metrics and views. Also (as we saw yesterday with the crash of some online sights)-- sustainability. You might consider, down the road, reposting some of your information as shorter pieces that refer back to this longer one. That said, I have some concern that Substack essays may disappear due to the fact that older posts seem to be less reachable. If you think an essay you have written should be preserved then I suggest you load it as a word doc. to the Wayback Machine (free). https://archive.org/web/
You can add keywords and tags.
Update: 317 views.
Yes, I have saved several of my articles to the Wayback Machine, MKUltra was one of them.
I have both a Wordpress blog and Substack.
i archive most of my important work to a word doc I used to convert stuff to PDF as well, but it is such a hassle. I have had three separate Wordpress accounts. I lost administration capabilities on the two older ones when my email addresses changed, but the blogs are still up on the Internet if you know the URL. I can also find them by typing my name and the term wordpress in my browser.
I have literally thousands of pages on the Internet in blogs now. They have all remained accessible up to this point.
But I agree the Wayback Machine is a wonderful service.
CONGRATULATIONS on your growing views!!!
--Willy
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I see you have it covered. I think Substack doesn't yet look to be stable over time. They should work on that and also SE optimization. What you describe above is complex for many of us.
Because my place of work has what they call a repository for open access items I have that as a second back-up but it doesn't archive Substack posts. I noticed when I inserted a link to a Substack I did into a class that the link didn't connect (this was an April '21 post).
Got lost in the French Book Trade last night & that is going to take a while. I thought it funny that all my posts about destroyed libraries weren't as popular as yesterday on Library Hand.
https://thedissedent.page/blog/
https://hybridrogue1.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/compulsory-schooling-indoctrination/
https://willywhitten.wordpress.com/blog/
I had another called NEWSPEAK Magazine on another blog server long ago...that vanished into the wild blue...???
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Every SubStack writer ought to know this! Whatever you can do to spread the word. Some priceless history is being created via these citizen-journalists now that journalism has devolved into the swarm of drivel. I do know Google doesn't much care to index the pages.
You are correct. Substack posts do not come up in searches.
Writers need to ensure their pages are captured by archive.org. I'm not sure how that is done but sociologists of the future might benefit particularly from the comments sections.
There is some net crawling but to be sure writers should send their work.
I used to frequent the Ontario Public Library in Ontario, California in the 1960s. They still had the card catalogs just like the one in the picture.
A serge of nostalgia came over me seeing that.
I went there a lot for high school research papers, and often found books on my personal interest as well, including volumes on the search for exotic animals such as the Yeti of the Himalayan mountains where the tales of the Sherpa's spoke of spectacular finds of skull caps of these animals. Western journalists and scientists reported on this, and took plaster castings of the Yeti footprints, that were published in the books I found at the library.
Yup, rubber stamped date cards were in envelopes pasted in the front page of the books
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. In the flash of the eye it is the 21st century, and digital madness prevails.
\\][//
You would be astounded at the thousands of pages librarians have written figuring out cataloging--and it was a noble calling. Not to outstay my welcome here on librarianship but Gabriel Naudé (2 February 1600 – 10 July 1653)---was very influential--The Best Read Man in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Naud%C3%A9
Yes, computers with full search capability kind of ruined the art.
The Bibliothèque Mazarine, or Mazarin Library, What an awesome place!!
Did you see THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, starring Mel Gibson as James Murray · Sean Penn as Dr. William Chester Minor · Natalie Dormer as Eliza Merrett?
A fascinating and wonderful film about the creation of the original Oxford Dictionary.
James Murray was an autodidact who taught himself everything he knew...which was quite substantial.
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Nice article. Here's my take on this topic. https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2016/06/library-handwriting.html
I knew you'd done a post on this but couldn't find it last night. I am going to go back and add this in. I got carried away when I spotted the Ukrainian article. That David Kaminski is doing fine work.
Look now, please: https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/p/library-hand-dewey-and-edison
I would have flunked out of library school if I had to learn to write legibly. As it was, we were still forced to learn to type the various cards -- subject, author, shelf-list -- with the black/red ink ribbons and everything. My cataloging professor measured every line with his damn metal ruler. Dude! It was 1983! OCLC was a thing!
I love you still call it library school. I do too. But now I teach in a "School of Information" and the data scientists and digital humanities people we have hire look at me and wish I didn't say that. I guess "library school" hurts their image as information scientists. But where I went to school really WAS called the "Graduate Library School."
Yeah, InMyDay® Berkeley had the School of Library and Information Studies. Now it's the School of Information. Times change. Insert "Old Man Shouts At Cloud" meme here.
University of Chicago GLS FTW!! (R.I.P.)
The synergy between ALA and GLS has never happened since between ALA and any school. Lester Asheim was my major professor after a stint at ALA.
Synergy is not a word that I would associate with ALA's current corporate-style managers. Chicago's GLS had a split personality when I was there. I took a class by Herman Fussler (who was all about information theory) but the computer class I was required to take only showed us how to make a graph using IBM cards (this, after I had already been working with Hugh Atkinson's pioneering yet flawed Library Control System at Ohio State). Another prof did bring in the esteemed Jesse Shera to talk about his concept of the "generic book," which reminded me instantly of the Akashic Records of the theosophists.
You and Edward Cayce, of course. Agree on the shift of ALA. There was a time I knew most everyone. Now few are even librarians and you know the fight on the ED where we won the vote, lost the vote on %. I learned FORTRAN at GLA but has Asheim, Virgo and Rayward so maybe more of a connection to things than even a few terms later.
My first pt.time job I had to file on the rod. Then the supervising librarian would check my filing. And if it was correct would dramatically pull the rod and let the cards drop into place. I did miss out on Library Hand but you still see it on old book labels..and in some of the GK Hall photocopied card collections. Remember them? (this post may be too library-y--but preserving old catalogs is sort of in the zone for this substack.)