Friday, October 7, 2011
Beauty Culture
This one was submitted by a reader (Thanks, Marc) who was searching our library's catalog for books on cosmetology, and not finding much with a subject search. With a more inclusive keyword search, he found that the LC Subject heading used for many of the cosmetology books is Beauty Culture. Yeeah, can't see anyone searching for that particular subject. Let alone the narrower term Beauty Operators, which was mentioned over at From the Catalogs of Babes.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
False personation
There are currently 63 (!) records in our library's catalog with the subject heading of "false personation." (Wow, spell check doesn't even recognize "personation.") Now - I realize that it's a legal term, but wouldn't "impersonation" be a bit clearer?
Mensuration
Ooh, vocabulary day at LCSHWTF! Have you ever heard the term Mensuration? Yeah, me neither. I happened across it, though, n the record for the book "The Facts on File Chronology of Science." A bit of searching around internet-wise tells me that mensuration has something to do with measurement - but honestly, It's not much clearer than that. A trip to an unabridged dictionary, and I guess it has to do with measuring things indirectly using algebra or geometry. Well, yay! Glad that was clear to everyone...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Pyrography
Yeah. Pyrography. Really? Wood burning.
I remember my dad having one of those things, which was basically a nail attached to a power source, with some cork around it as a handle. He would use it to put a name on things, like a baseball bat that he didn't want me to lose.
Granted, the designs in this book are a lot fancier than he managed back in the day, but still. Pyrography?
I remember my dad having one of those things, which was basically a nail attached to a power source, with some cork around it as a handle. He would use it to put a name on things, like a baseball bat that he didn't want me to lose.
Granted, the designs in this book are a lot fancier than he managed back in the day, but still. Pyrography?
Orgonomy
OK, this one is maybe just something I wasn't familiar with, but - Orgonomy? A little research illuminates that Orgonomy is the study of Wilhelm Reich's theory of basic cosmic energies.
From Wikipedia: "Orgone is blue in color, he wrote, omnipresent, visible to the naked eye, and responsible for such things as weather, the color of the sky, gravity, the formation of galaxies, and the biological expressions of emotion and sexuality." Yikes.
How that fits into Reapers: A Botswana mystery by Frederick Ramsay is unclear...
From Wikipedia: "Orgone is blue in color, he wrote, omnipresent, visible to the naked eye, and responsible for such things as weather, the color of the sky, gravity, the formation of galaxies, and the biological expressions of emotion and sexuality." Yikes.
How that fits into Reapers: A Botswana mystery by Frederick Ramsay is unclear...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Orderliness
Is it just me, or is this what comes to mind when you hear the term "orderly?"
But no, it's the subject term you need to search for if you want to find books like this, on organization and organizing.
Then again, any excuse to reminisce about the 80's...
But no, it's the subject term you need to search for if you want to find books like this, on organization and organizing.
Then again, any excuse to reminisce about the 80's...
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