"Let the world revolve around you for a change. Take a little private time to fall in love with technology that will simplify and enhance your life." The latest marketing blurb for WebDewey? DeweyBrowser? Open WorldCat? Actually it's the tagline for Lifebrarian.com, the Best Buy® offshoot that is rebranding moms everywhere (but not dads, it seems) as lifebrarians. Congratulations, mom -- apparently you're the 21st century's true memory institution. "It's become your role to record all the moments of everybody's life ... Everybody leans on you, counts on you ... and you just love it." Meanwhile Best Buy's plan is to allow you to "stay ahead of the expectation curve" by supplying the ultimate in lifebrary accessories, such as digital scrapbooking materials. Digital scrapbooking? Why yes, it's the latest in lifebrary science. A little research reveals that three books with the title Digital scrapbooking were published in 2004. The most widely-held by WorldCat libraries is by Maria Given Nerius, published by Lark Books, and subtitled Using your computer to create exciting scrapbook pages. The Library of Congress subject headings assigned to this work include "Photography--Digital techniques," "Photograph albums--Data processing," and "Digital preservation" as well as "Scrapbooks--Data processing," but the DDC number is 745.593 Useful objects under 745.5 Handicrafts, which Dewey Manor would endorse as the best comprehensive number for scrapbooking, digital or otherwise. The LC subject heading "Scrapbook journaling" (i.e., the writing supporting the photos and other elements on scrapbook pages) is editorially mapped to that number -- along with "Handwarmers," "Refrigerator magnets," and "Wooden signs and signboards." We don't think anyone's written a book about digital handwarmers yet. But we're ready. And, in order to handle the deluge of lifebrary lit that is surely imminent, we're currently looking into the suggestion that scrapbooking should get its own number in a development under 745.593.
Three books in 2004. I think there's hundreds of them do the hobby has really taken on a life of its own.
Posted by: Maggy | 11 May 2008 at 12:20 AM