A Librarian's Alphabet |
| A | is for Access, a large part of our creed. |
| B | is for Books. Those bound paper thingies you read? |
| C | is for Computer, with keys and with locks. |
| D | is for Data, some basic building blocks. |
| E | is for Education, with ideas that once baffled. |
| F | is for Free, but remember TANSTAAFL. 1 |
| G | is for Guide through the data-packed mist. |
| H | is for Helpful. We like to assist! |
| I | is for Information, both action and item. |
| J | is for Journals. We love and deride 'em. |
| K | is for Knowledge, our most noble quest. |
| L | is for Library. You couldn't have guessed? |
| M | is for MARC, strange numbers and fields. 2 |
| N | is for Network. Working together, to get greater yields. |
| O | is for Overdue. Come in and renew 'em. |
| P | is for Patrons. Or "Customers" in TQM. 3 |
| Q | is for Question, which sets all into motion. |
| R | is for Reading. What a radical notion! |
| S | is for Searching those intellectual mazes. |
| T | is for Thank-you, among other praises. |
| U | is for Unknown, a great place to explore. |
| V | is for Value. More MORE MORE MORE!!!! |
| W | is for Whispering, the way we all spoke. |
| X | is for Xerox®. Paperless? Us? What a joke! |
| Y | is for Yellow, worn at graduation. 4 |
| Z | is for Libraries. (In LC classification!) 5 |
| 1. |
Acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", from
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein. If you want,
you may read the
jargon
definition of the term, or browse
Amazon's
summaries and commentaries. I've finally read the book, and I promise
that a review of sorts is on my to-do list.
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| 2. |
"The MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) formats are standards for
the representation and communication of bibliographic and related
information in machine-readable form." - taken straight from the
Library of Congress
Standards page.
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| 3. |
Acronym for "Total Quality Management." This was a management
trend in the 1990s.
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| 4. |
The color of the hood! Lemon yellow is the color for library science.
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| 5. |
Okay, so the
Library of Congress Classification Outline has it as "library
science," but Z is the class for works on libraries,
librarianship, and related topics.
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