Friday 31 December 2010

2010 review

It's been a rather quiet year for shelfobsessed, at least on the blog - elsewhere we've seen cross-country moves and several national and international trips, which have used up quite a bit of time! One result of the cross-country move has been the combining of two collections housed on different coasts, and while we're far from current with our DVD and book cataloguing our CDs are nearly up-to-date. After a few days of categorisation, the CDs all have Dewey Decimal call numbers, and while they might not be labelled or physically sorted yet, it's good to have the preparation done.

Over the course of coming up with new call numbers for the CDs, we've been able to go over our 2010 acquisitions, the distribution of which can be seen below. Of the 63 new titles, 17 were from 2010 itself, while 2009 was also well-represented as we caught up with some releases we'd missed last year. Some of the more memorable call numbers are featured in this retrospective visualisation:

shelfobsessed in 2010

One particularly pleasing aspect of the Dewey decimalisation process, as referred to in previous posts, has been the thematic clustering of albums that under alphabetical or chronological ordering would not be anywhere near each other. Thanks to new acquisitions this year, a few sequences of three albums have been completed that are especially impressive (well, to me at least):

133.334 - Occultism - symbolic divination - omens

The Warning (2006) - Hot Chip
The Reminder (2007) - Feist
This is Happening (2010) - LCD Soundsystem

701.85 - haven't put in the subject headings in the listing yet, but it's basically colours within art

Kind of Blue (1957) - Miles Davis
Almost Blue (1981) - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Blue is the Colour (1996) - the Beautiful South

In 2011 we're aiming to get further into cataloguing the DVDs and books, and physically ordering all the collection. This will require more storage space in some cases than we currently have (cue Ikea trip), but will be accompanied by some pruning of the collections. While there was still a large number of new acquisitions in 2010, the final total was a lot smaller than in 2009 or 2008, and with similar levels of restraint we will hopefully be more in control of our library than at the mercy of whichever shelves have a bit of room left...

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