Our Cataloger's Blog

The Olympics are here! The Olympics are here! I do love the Olympics and celebrating all the glorious equestrian events! The tv coverage is pretty good, but all of the equestrian events are getting streamed in their entirety online for the first time ever!...

Updates The collection is coming along swimmingly! We have just over 2,000 volumes cataloged. We have two new sections started, for which I am still awaiting location codes, an oversize and a rare books section. The war books are done and...

Confessions of a horse owner Sometimes I don’t like to admit that I am a “Horse Lady” as the connotations attached are not qualities I like to have associated with myself. However, I turned into a “Horse Lady” on Sunday. My handsome steed after about...

Rah Rah! Okay, so I’m trying to work up some fan enthusiasm here! This weekend marks the final round of the Dressage Olympic trials at Collecting Gaits Farm. The list of characters, three of whom shall be competing in the 2008 Olympics,...

A momentous week! Last week we accomplished something grand! Yes, we finished the part of the collection that is housed down stairs in the stacks of the library. The collection is currently housed in three different parts of the library. Right now we...

What do show jumping and Bullmastiffs have to do with one another? Nothing that I know of! Other that the fact that they were the topics of the last 2 books of the collection I read. Jump for Joy written by Pat Smythe is an autobiographical book in which she shares both...

Two new additions! As I sit at my desk, surrounded by the piles of books, there’s a new chatter coming from our cozy office. This summer, as I have previously mentioned, I have two wonderful assistants who are currently working away. Lindsey Martell...

Dog books? Greetings and apologies for the lack of writing! The collection is moving along with over 1000 books entered in! After skipping a couple of shelves, I find myself buried in the world of dog books! Dog books, you ask, in...

Back in the saddle again! I suppose chair would be the more appropriate noun, but it certainly doesn’t have the same ring! Speaking of the chair, it is wonderful to sit! The barn renovations came along well, but I am grateful to be sitting again....

Seriously Aggressive! Now I would hope that’s not a statement used to describe me, but I have never been so happy to have a product named as such! A large part of the collection is older books which have some textured covers...

The Horse or Horses I am now in the section of books that are all entitled: Horse. A concise title one may think, but a nightmare to search for! Tufts currently has 6 titles, none of which are books that I have been working...

The Collection so far.... Before I even arrived on the scene, the staff of vet library had arranged all of the books by subject. So far I've cataloged through over 600 books about: Horse tack, including several volumes on bits, which as a horse...

You learn something new every day! One of the exciting things about working on a project like this is that you find all kinds of quirks! My discovery of the day (which may actually be a tad sad as I have known this existed since day...

Sometimes dreams do come true! I was languishing at home, unemployed and pressing the refresh button on the library job listings page, just because there might be a new job listing…. when I got an email from a dear colleague of mine. She said she...