I have a pretty heavy holiday travel itinerary this year:

12/24-12/26: Waynesville / St. Robert / Ft. Leonard Wood (to see family for Xmas)

12/26-12/27: St. Louis (to see StL friends, head to JJ's for drinks more than likely, etc.)

12/31-1/4: Houston (for New Years to see my friends Keith and turi)

1/8-1/11: New Orleans (to hang out with madknits and generally run amok around NOLA)

Whew!

If you're around any of those cities during those dates, let me know and we can hang!

Call it what you will - some people are destined to be fair-weather friends. Whether it's social calendar overbooking, social group politics, or good old fashioned mean-girl-syndrome, the fast track from 3am phone call friend to hello-at-the-bar acquaintance can occur seemingly overnight.

I'm not sure if it's due to how I was brought up, but I have a particular definition of friend. It's more than adding someone on a social network or Livejournal. It's more than running into someone at a bar once every week or two and buying them a drink. Also, if you haven't had at least one major argument with a friend, they probably don't speak their mind so much as pay lip service - also something I don't consider friend so much as acquaintance.

What is this all about, you ask? I'm glad you brought it up.

Last night I was out for the first time in weeks drinking and socializing and not worrying about a novel word count. I ran into people I literally hadn't seen since October - primarily because I only see them at bars these days. They rarely call, they say the same opening lines they typically always say upon seeing me for the first time in however long, and they make no effort at being what I consider a friend. That's all well and fine though - most of these people realize the situation for what it is. That being said...

Don't approach me, ask me what another person and I were discussing a moment earlier, and expect to receive something other than amused laughter from me. I don't care if we met three years or three minutes ago - if you don't put the effort into a friendship, you don't reap the rewards...

Does anyone else deal with this? Please tell me it isn't just me...

Hello!

For my final project in my International Librarianship class, I am trying to get an overview of how cataloguing practices differ in other countries. This poll will be up until midday Wednesday 9 December (since I present on this Thursday the 10th). I appreciate your help on this!!

Poll #1495151 International Cataloguing Poll
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 17

What country are you cataloguing in?

What rules do you use for descriptive cataloguing? (for example, AACR2)

What classification scheme do you use? (Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal, etc.)

Do you use MARC for online records or another electronic format?

Does your library participate in OCLC's WorldCat catalogue?

Any other comments?