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	<title>Simon Chamberlain's library weblog &#187; cataloguing</title>
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		<title>The Observer: A bad week for&#8230;librarianship</title>
		<link>http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/academic-libraries/the-observer-a-bad-week-forlibrarianship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Chamberlain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luckily just a silly article, rather than another statement about the decline of the profession:
Homo Britannicus by Professor Chris Stringer, a groundbreaking historical biological work about the origin of humans in Britain, was met with confusion at Manchester University, where librarians have filed all their copies in the &#8220;gay and lesbian&#8221; section.
Source.
Not sure where they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Luckily just a silly article, rather than another statement about the decline of the profession:</p>
<blockquote><p>Homo Britannicus by Professor Chris Stringer, a groundbreaking historical biological work about the origin of humans in Britain, was met with confusion at Manchester University, where librarians have filed all their copies in the &#8220;gay and lesbian&#8221; section.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2009/apr/12/good-bad-week">Source</a>.</p>
<p>Not sure where they get &#8216;all their copies&#8217; from as the <a href="http://catalogue.library.manchester.ac.uk/TalisPrism/doOpenURLSearch.do?sid=Talis:prod_talis&amp;pid=Key:2854965;ArtifactType:Marc21Slim;searchLocation:talislms&amp;interface=Webpage">catalogue</a> shows one holding only, and it seems to be shelved in 913 (Ancient World)&#8230;.presumably the power of the Observer&#8217;s scorn has corrected any classification errors <img src='http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  [Still, one wonders where the error could come from; either the cataloguers are copy-cataloguing from an authoritative source, or they&#8217;re doing it themselves by carefully cataloguing from the item; either way they should see what it&#8217;s actually about&#8230;.)</p>
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