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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi, Kate et al.—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If the paper is blank and doesn’t appear to be historically significant, we would remove it from the book to remove the risk of acid migration, if the laid-in
paper is 19<sup>th</sup>-century or later. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Margaret<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kate Moriarty<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 19, 2015 5:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Question on blank-paper ephemera in books<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Alex and Larry. Alex, I missed that part of Folgerpedia when I checked, thanks for pointing it out. We will probably do as you both say.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Laurence S. Creider <<a href="mailto:lcreider@lib.nmsu.edu" target="_blank">lcreider@lib.nmsu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kate,<br>
I am normally in favor of preserving ephemera associated with books, but I<br>
am a bit stumped here. What is the purpose of preserving the paper?<br>
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My question would be what is this blank piece of paper evidence of or for?<br>
Sometimes I use blank pieces of paper (or restaurant receipts) to mark my<br>
place in a book that I am reading, sometimes to mark the index or notes<br>
when I find I am making frequent reference to them as I read the book.<br>
When I finish the book, I may just put the paper anywhere in the book or<br>
just throw it out. I frequently put pieces of paper in books or journals<br>
in which I am photocopying pages (I know, old-fashioned). I might insert<br>
a piece of paper to indicate something I want to share or to quote in a<br>
talk or even to find again. With the exception of the photocopying, any<br>
of these purposes might have motivated someone from the time of printing<br>
forward. While the type and condition of the blank paper may give me some<br>
idea of when the book was read, that will usually only be narrowed to a<br>
century or so unless a watermark is present. Once there is writing, even<br>
probationes pennae, the matter changes, of course.<br>
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I will be interested to hear what others can teach me about this.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Larry<br>
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<span class="hoenzb">Laurence S. Creider</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Head, Archives and Special Collections Dept.</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">University Library</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">New Mexico State University</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Las Cruces, NM 88003</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Work: <a href="tel:575-646-4756">575-646-4756</a></span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Fax: <a href="tel:575-646-7477">575-646-7477</a></span><br>
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On Thu, June 18, 2015 9:15 am, Kate Moriarty wrote:<br>
> Dear colleagues,<br>
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> You've helped me before with our ephemera procedures. We are refining<br>
> those<br>
> procedures and were wondering, do you record/process/or otherwise<br>
> acknowledge blank pieces of paper found in books? If so, do you do it<br>
> across the board or does your practice depend on the paper or the age of<br>
> the book or the collection the book is a part of? Or do you ignore or<br>
> remove blank paper (there's only so much time in the day)?<br>
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> On the one hand, blank paper doesn't carry information beyond the type and<br>
> age of the paper. On the other, papers do vary and they are evidence of<br>
> reading practice.<br>
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> Our general current practice is to keep ephemera in place in the book,<br>
> enclosed in glassine, and record their presence in a note in the bib<br>
> record. We identify three types of ephemera in the bib record: manuscript<br>
> ephemera, printed ephemera, and ephemera (catch-all for everything else).<br>
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> Thanks for any information you can share,<br>
> -Kate<br>
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> --<br>
> Kate S. Moriarty, MSW, MLS | Rare Book Catalog Librarian | Associate<br>
> Professor | Pius XII Memorial Library | Room 320-2<br>
> Saint Louis University | 3650 Lindell Blvd . | St. Louis, MO 63108 |<br>
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