There's gold in them thar bib records
My esteemed colleague, Thom Hickey, shared with me a list created using the WorldCat.org Lists beta application. I told him I'd give him a 15 minute head start to blog about this (he found the list, after all): it is too good to pass up.
We've made it a little challenging to find (or even know about) LISTS so far, but early in the life cycle, there are apparently a few intrepid souls that tried it out. One of them, Daniel Cornwall, generated an instant classic:
This gem of 52 items (what, no joker?) belongs on David Letterman or All Things Considered.
Some of my personal favorites (my annotations):
- Citizenship and the strawberry jam. (Got milk?)
- After the cold war : living with lower defense spending. (ok, so some of these aren't exactly current... thank heaven we were saved from THIS particular fate)
- Everything you always wanted to know about shipping high-level nuclear wastes (a new candidate for the Dummies series?)
- Gobbledygook has gotta go. (what chance do we have?)
- The national money laundering strategy for ... (I think this rounds to the Ways and Means Committee)
- State-of-the-art dummy selection. (A fast moving field if ever there was one)
Daniel has set a high bar for us... or maybe he did this list AT the bar... but next time someone says librarians (or gubmint writers) aren't very funny, point them at Daniel's list.
If you want to make your own lists, funny or otherwise, register at WorldCat.Org and get busy.
----If you want to make your own lists, funny or otherwise, register at WorldCat.Org and get busy.
Image: rites of summer (June, 2007)
