Pablo in P&M – “It was like that when I got here”
Others in the Metadata Team also repair books that have suffered a little wear and tear. They tend to have more success than I did when I tried.
The building blocks of enquiries…
Helping students with more specialised subject searches is usually the realm of our Faculty Librarians and their assistants, but sometimes we Enquiries staff are asked questions which sit on the borderline of being specialist, and which we enjoy helping with. …
Pablo in P&M – Making things Discovery-able
This year the Library has provided access to 3,946 new e-books and 661 databases and made them available on Discovery and the library catalogue. All this requires people to make sure the “metadata” is all present and correct.
Turner & Paige no.26 June 26th 2015
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Pablo in P&M – We must have more (books)!
More books! Our students demand it. So do their lecturers for that matter. All the orders from academics and the Faculty Librarians are fed into a big computer in P&M that talks to another computer owned by a big book supplier “across …
Pablo in P&M – The stamp of approval
I asked one of the nice Library Assistants why we still had any journals in print. “Is it because some people like to harken back to “ye good olde” days when electronic resources were limited to light switches and portable heaters?” …
Pablo in P&M – Slippery journals
A knock at the door told us more printed journals had arrived, and what a lot of those there were, too! Despite having thousands of electronic journals, we still receive 639 different titles in print. A short waddle to the …
Pablo in P&M – Shopping!
Until today, I thought P&M was a clothing brand from the 1970s but apparently it stands for “Procurement and Metadata”, which I understand to be professional shorthand for “buying and labelling”. I got to try my flipper at what P&M …
Pablo in P&M
Pablo here! Part-time journalist, full-time penguin. After spending the past few months helping out in University of Portsmouth Library I began to wonder how all the new books arrived here. I always assumed they were printed in the back room …
Don’t forget your pants! An exploration of the Women’s Wear Daily archive online
“Women’s Wear Daily”, as the name suggests, is a daily publication focusing on the business of women’s clothing. Published in America from 1910, it’s been monitoring trends for over a century. The complete archive of this publication, complete with high …
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