Quick Post #7: AI for Cataloging in the Home
Home use for AI: Our user manuals, warranty cards, directions, etc. for electronics, appliances, etc. were totally unorganized and in several locations. As I'm getting them out and grouping them roughly alphabetically (folders for every few letters), I'm snapping a picture of the cover of each one. Claude is then able to scan the photos and generate a spreadshe
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#Uncategorized #AI #cataloging #Claude #LLMs
I'm so fortunate to have such incredible #cataloging colleagues. This project presented a unique opportunity for general collections catalogers to help a rare books library catalog an enormous influx of modern editions. https://libraries.indiana.edu/catalogingkripke
Cataloging Kripke’s Dictionary Trove

IU librarians unlock 20,000 rare works on words, slang, and language history

Belgian Photographer Creates Extensive Catalog of Personal Possessions

📰 Original title: Woman Painstakingly Photographs and Catalogs Every Single Possession

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/belgian-photographer-creates-extensive-catalog-of-personal-possessions/?redirpost=df93eeb0-4957-418a-af5a-a1827ce4d024

#culture #photography #cataloging #possessions

Belgian Photographer Creates Extensive Catalog of Personal Possessions

Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins has undertaken a remarkable and meticulous project: documenting every single item she owns through photography and detailed cataloging.

KillBait Archive

Belgian Photographer Creates Extensive Catalog of Personal Possessions

📰 Original title: Woman Painstakingly Photographs and Catalogs Every Single Possession

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/belgian-photographer-creates-extensive-catalog-of-personal-possessions/?redirpost=df93eeb0-4957-418a-af5a-a1827ce4d024

#culture #photography #cataloging #possessions

Belgian Photographer Creates Extensive Catalog of Personal Possessions

Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins has undertaken a remarkable and meticulous project: documenting every single item she owns through photography and detailed cataloging.

KillBait Archive
Sturm und drang and AI

A lot of attention and money has been lavished on artificial intelligence lately. (Understatement of the decade.) Germans have good ways of expressing things, and one of them is “sturm und dr…

The OW Factor
That virtuous feeling

Yeah, yeah, today is THAT day, but I really don’t care and as usual, I feel curmudgeonly about it. I don’t feel particularly romantic but I do have that virtuous feeling. Why? Well, bec…

The OW Factor

"Catalogers stay in full control."

Until the boss says that they should[1] accept the AI suggestions.

[1] "should" in Manager Speak means "must"[2]

[2] "must" in this context includes "do not spend time double checking that the AI additions actually make sense" [3]

[3] Because the boss doesn't want to know about how bad the AI slop is as long as they're able to make the case to cut staff or reduce work hours thanks to the new shiny AI tool

https://www.oclc.org/en/news/releases/2025/20251208-ai-recordmanager-connexion.html

#cataloging #metadata

OCLC introduces new AI tools to make cataloging faster and smarter

OCLC has added powerful new AI features to its WorldShare Record Manager and Connexion cataloging applications that automatically suggesting classification numbers and subject headings.

OCLC

I bought a CueCat from LibraryThing when they first got them. It was so useful to me when cataloging my book and graphic novels library.

Their holiday store has them on sale for $5 for the holidays.

Now you can use a mobile phone, but back then it wasn't an option.

But you get a neat little plastic cat sculpture with a USB tail and flashing red mouth with a CueCat.

Useful for Bookwyrm.

https://www.librarything.com/more/store

#CueCat #LibraryThing #catalog #cataloging #Library #Libraries #z_lib #Bookwyrm

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New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚

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Backlogs and Beyond: #AI in Primary #Cataloging Workflows (via #OCLC / Research Library Partnership) https://hangingtogether.org/backlogs-and-beyond-ai-in-primary-cataloging-workflows/ #libraries #librarians