Notes on the Bibliographic Description of Hip-Hop In January 2017 I began work as an Ask-A-Librarian Intern under the supervision of Columbia’s Music Librarian, Nick Patterson. A great feature of the Ask-A-Librarian internship at Columbia is the ability of supervisors to tailor the on-site portion of the internship to suit the interests of the student. […]
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Tibetan Studies A/V Internship- Summer 2017
The Complexity of Cataloging Tibetan ‘Music Videos’ In my Intro to Knowledge Organization class, Professor Amber Billey taught her students that cataloging was inherently political. She taught us about Sandy Berman and Hope Olson’s work; about the story that is “told” by classification. Items to be cataloged are multifaceted, and there is conscious decision-making behind […]