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Cataloguing update

I apologize for my long absence from the Catalogue Blogue. A lot has happened since I last wrote.

Shortcomings in Drupal Taxonomy Module

As we’ve written about in detail elsewhere on this blog, we use the Taxonomy module in Drupal for the Subject field. It’s set up so that every time we enter a new subject term the term gets added to a controlled vocabulary that’s stored in Drupal.

In search of alternative subject headings and thesauri

I’ve found a couple of resources for alternative subject headings since my last post:

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Zine thesaurus-making fun

Cataloguing has begun

Now that we have this awesome catalogue, our next task is to fill it with data, or catalogue the collection of the Anchor Archive Zine Library. There are about 2000 zines in the collection, plus books and other items, but we’re just focusing on the zine collection for now. We hope to have most of the cataloguing done by September or October of 2008.

Controlled Vocabularies

There are some fields in the zine record table for which we want to use a controlled vocabulary.