{"id":480,"date":"2015-10-26T02:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/barbierilow\/?p=480"},"modified":"2015-10-26T03:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T03:43:28","slug":"father-and-son-catalogue-a-research-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Father and son catalogue a research library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/barbierilow\/?attachment_id=513\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-513\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"513\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?attachment_id=513\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-e1445814788470.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1445774936&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;6&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-e1445814788470.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-e1445814788470.jpeg?fit=648%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-513\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/barbierilow\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-e1445814788470-225x300.jpeg?resize=266%2C355\" alt=\"image\" width=\"266\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a>My son Jordan and I are working on a project I have been meaning to get to for a long time. \u00a0I have well over one thousand books in my faculty offices. Most of these are about China or Egypt, and they are in a variety of languages. \u00a0It has become harder each year to remember where each of them is\u00a0located in my offices. \u00a0Also, I tend to loan books to students for project on a regular basis, and I loose track of who has my books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/barbierilow\/?attachment_id=486\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-486\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"486\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?attachment_id=486\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/vistalogo.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"vistalogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/vistalogo.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/vistalogo.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-486\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/barbierilow\/wp-content\/uploads\/vistalogo.jpg?resize=151%2C151\" alt=\"vistalogo\" width=\"151\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/vistalogo.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/vistalogo.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/vistalogo.jpg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>So, Jordan and I are entering all of my books into a computer book database called Readerware (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readerware.com\">www.readerware.com<\/a>). \u00a0We then print Library of Congress spine labels for each book, and stamp the inside with a custom stamp that reads &#8220;Scribe of History&#8221; (left) in a combination of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Chinese characters. \u00a0Now, I will be able to look up my books from anywhere, since the program also has a mobile app, and I can record which ones I have loaned out to students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son Jordan and I are working on a project I have been meaning to get to for a long time. \u00a0I have well over one thousand books in my faculty offices. Most of these are about China or Egypt, and they are in a variety of languages. \u00a0It has become harder each year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-e1445891157859.jpeg?fit=547%2C410&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdD41Y-7K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":522,"url":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=522","url_meta":{"origin":480,"position":0},"title":"New lectures uploaded, now mobile capable.","author":"barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu","date":"October 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I have just uploaded two lectures to my website. \u00a0The first is called \"Artisans of Ancient China,\" and is a summary of the research that went into my award winning book, Artisans in Early Imperial China. \u00a0It was recorded from a talk given at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Artisans-e1445891125399.jpg?fit=547%2C410&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Artisans-e1445891125399.jpg?fit=547%2C410&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Artisans-e1445891125399.jpg?fit=547%2C410&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1240,"url":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=1240","url_meta":{"origin":480,"position":1},"title":"New Lecture Uploaded: &#8220;Burning the Books and Killing the Scholars: Representing the Atrocities of the First Emperor of Qin&#8221;","author":"barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu","date":"April 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This lecture is a preview of another chapter out of my upcoming book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press). .Click HERE for the lecture page for this and other lectures.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/detail2kengru-e1650967466549.jpg?fit=1024%2C556&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/detail2kengru-e1650967466549.jpg?fit=1024%2C556&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/detail2kengru-e1650967466549.jpg?fit=1024%2C556&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/detail2kengru-e1650967466549.jpg?fit=1024%2C556&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":816,"url":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=816","url_meta":{"origin":480,"position":2},"title":"Professor Barbieri Awarded ACLS Fellowship","author":"barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu","date":"April 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Kmt \"The Black Land\" It was just announced that I was awarded the ACLS Yvette and William Kirby Centennial Fellowship in Chinese Studies for the 2019-2020 academic year. 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