My librarian Metadata Coordinator friend Paul passed along a link to this blog post.
Blogger The Rabid Paladin did some excellent sleuthing, and managed to track down the origin of that list of 100 random-ish books that’s been making the rounds lately.
“Well, at this point I abandoned the Big Read as a likely red herring and went for list composition. The ordering of the list is specific and that should be something I can search against, right? After all, how many lists start off with Pride and Prejudice, right?”
Long story short: the list was the result of a poll, which explains some of the oddities. (Like the inclusion of both “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” AND “The Chronicles of Narnia.”
Love it! I’ve been wondering where it came from. The oddities made it seem more like it had been tinkered with. I didn’t think of a poll.
Is “metadata coordinator” the new code phrase for librarian? If so, I need to inform all my librar-, er, metadata coordinator friends. I have heard the term metadata used in a cataloging class I took; metadata coordinator makes sense but is waaaay too obscure.
I love the research!! It makes sense now, as the doubling bugged me.
Thanks to metadata coordinator Paul for the sleuthing. I “heart” and “friend” him in the cyberworld. :O)