The “Ponsonby Britt” solution: challenges in audiovisual cataloging practices

摘要

Never let it be said that cataloging is an activity bereft of creativity or ingenuity. When one catalogs anything,particularly a non-traditional asset apart from the monographs librarians are usually assumed to work with bydefault, one imbues it with definition and meaning, essentially giving it a life and findability beyond its existenceas an object, an asset, or an electronic entity. The cataloger, in essence, uses a record to create a sense ofplace and purpose for an item and for the institution which collects it. I personally came to understand theseprinciples during my time as a cataloger for The Paley Center for Media in New York from 2010 to 2016.