I'm an old-school librarian from the card catalog age, though I personally completed transfer of 2 school libraries and maybe 5 law libraries from a card system to a computerized.
I am strongly stuck to belly dance as two words, but I slowly losing my fight. I think I posted here before on this topic.
Is there anyone left who feels as strongly as I do?
tapdance
huladance
bellydance
all misspellings . . .
Now as for ebay, that's another post
I am strongly stuck to belly dance as two words, but I slowly losing my fight. I think I posted here before on this topic.
Is there anyone left who feels as strongly as I do?
tapdance
huladance
bellydance
all misspellings . . .
Now as for ebay, that's another post
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Re: Belly Dance two words or one?
Mon, December 4, 2006 - 4:05 AMI too use Belly Dance, but many of the DVDs and books we purchase use bellydance, so i always search under both when shwoing someone how to find it. Very annoying, but when you want to find eveything in a system,. you have to do it that way. We could standardize till the cows come home in our libraries but who is going to tell the publishers....... -
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Re: Belly Dance two words or one?
Mon, December 4, 2006 - 2:15 PMIt seems to me that two words IS correct, but in spite of this I am very comfortable with bellydance as one word... Saying/writing belly_dance feels to me like there is an unnatural pause in the middle. I search twice for everything BD related, and I can't see a standardisation any time soon.
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Re: Belly Dance two words or one?
Thu, December 14, 2006 - 9:42 PMI believe the LC subject heading is Belly Dance, but whatever words are used on the media source tend to be catalogued as well these days. Unfortunately, many items I would catalogue as BD are instead recorded under any combination of things ranging from Muslim to Women's to Middle East to folkloric studies.
I've just learned to look for everything in the OPACs these days, and to comb both KW and SH as they can often times be mutually exclusive. The most annoying bit? Middle Eastern - Middle East - Mid Eastern - Mid East - Mideastern - Mideast. And then you have to start all over again using various conjugations for Arabian, Islam, and Oriental. And if you really want to find the hidden gems, branch into Turkey and Egypt and North Africa and every country associated with the Rom.
Oy! But damn, I love it! ;-p Sorry... bleeding into the other thread, here...
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