Apr
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Cataloguers of the museum world stand up and be counted
“With his flowing white beard and donnish, almost magical air, Irving Finkel looks every inch the learned scholar.”
- Ed Davey, ‘The 99% of the British Museum not on show’, BBC London, 31 march 2010, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8595000/8595594.stm>
AW: Yep that’s curators for you. Hobbity little wizards every last one of them, but when they work on a cataloguing project that ‘At the current rate […] will take two centuries to complete’, I think that demands our respect. Well done cataloguers everywhere!
And stay tuned for the answer to yesterday’s cataloguing conundrum… what item at our mystery museum belonging to ‘Man Homo sapiens’ and is waiting donation?
