Flash-Mob Cataloging: NCSU took on the Joel Lane House Museum

Another library cataloged in a day, thanks to the Metadata & Cataloging Department at North Carolina State University Libraries. They descended upon the Joel Lane Museum House in Raleigh, NC (museum website, LibraryThing Local page) as their community service outing, to catalog the museum's collection (here). Not only is the museum the oldest dwelling in Raleigh, but it's also full of rare books and historical documents. The collection also has works on museum maintenance, gardening, antiques, colonial-period America, the history of North Carolina and Raleigh, and a book entitled "Southern Honor: ethics and behavior in the old South" - which was thusly tagged 'dueling'.

To one-up previous LibraryThing Flash Mobs, this particular mob also scanned some covers! As this escalates, what do you think will mobbers be doing - reading every book as they go?

Read more about the day's adventures from the libloggerazzi:
Circ and Serve
Shovers and Makers
USF Library

While none of the LibraryThing staff were in attendance, we did send a care package of cuecats and teeshirts. There are some New England flash-mobs in the works, which we will personally help rock.

If you're interested in forming a flash mob for a library near you, check out Tim's blog post, the How To Flash-Mob with LibraryThing wiki and the Flash Mob Cataloging Talk group.