Blog EntryLibrary Science Jargon that Sounds DirtyFeb 4, '08 10:51 PM
for everyone

This was originally written by Aaron J. Enright, for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (www.mcsweeneys.net), a site with its own brand of humor (more akin to Frasier and New Yorker than SNL).  Some I got, but some left me with “huh?”, but 100% funny.  I also decided to add my own terms to this one, feel free to add your own. :D

Access point

Authority control

Broad classification

Closed stacks

Coextensive subject entry

Collocation

Colon classification

Cutter number

Date stamp

Depth indexing

Descriptor

Dewey

EAD header

Exhaustivity

Full entry

Information package

Location device

Main entry

MARC record

Open stacks

Scope note

Subject entry

Subject heading

Surrogate record

Syndetic structure

Technical service

Title entry

Tracing

Union catalog

User file

Vertical file

Warwick framework

Weeding

Work mark

 

Addenda:

Add-on

Circulation

Compression

Explorer

Hardcopy

Heading

Holdings

Jobber

Open Access

Stemming

Unzipping

Zipping


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