Oldschool Metadata
on Jun 11 in Books, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, Librarianship, Library tourism by Erica Firment
Binders of field notes sit in the common area of the Macaulay library, the audio/video library where I spent three years working as a software interface designer.
These are all digitized now, but the collection goes back to the 1950′s so these books are the last line of defense in case of a digital preservation catastrophe.
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