<div dir="ltr">Great question, Deborah. I'm curious to see the answers to this as well. And I'll also echo that Brenna gave a fantastic and interesting presentation. Well done!<div><br></div><div>Similar to Christine, I'd say the bulk (90%+) of what I have cataloged in my position at Temple University has been post-1830. We also have a wide range of collections but here are some examples of what I have spent a good chunk of time cataloging and that regularly cross my desk:</div><div><ul><li>Early 20th century fine/small press publications</li><li>Science fiction mass market paperbacks</li><li>Artists' books</li><li>1960s-present radical literature</li><li>Zines (I spent much of last year cataloging a large collection of these)</li><li>materials relating to Philadelphia (all dates but much is post-1830)</li><li>university-related publications</li><li>printing/publishing/bookselling collections (all dates but much is post-1830)</li><li>early African-American literature</li><li>materials published by the Jewish Publication Society and relating to Philadelphia's Jewish community</li></ul><div>Not surprisingly, much of what I catalog falls into one of the categories listed here on the SCRC's Collecting Emphases page: <a href="https://library.temple.edu/categories/scrc-collections">https://library.temple.edu/categories/scrc-collections</a></div><div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:30 AM Christine DeZelar-Tiedman <<a href="mailto:dezel002@umn.edu">dezel002@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Probably around 90% of what I catalog at the University of Minnesota Libraries is post-1831. We have a wide range of collections, so ranking in quantity would be difficult, but here is a list of examples:<div><br></div><div><ul><li>Artists' books (20th-21st century)</li><li>Self-published and print on demand monographs (Sherlock Holmes, autobiographies, LGBTQ)</li><li>Zines</li><li>Erotica (primarily LGBTQ), including periodicals and pulp novels</li><li>Publications of US immigrant communities (newspapers, periodicals, church histories)</li><li>Monographs and serials on computing history</li><li>19th-21st century monographs (many mass-market) that we collect due to provenance or subject focus (African American literature, Sherlock Holmes, LGBTQ, Social Welfare)</li><li>Children's literature, including picture books, series fiction, periodicals, AV materials</li><li>Dime novels</li><li>Modern Greek literature</li></ul></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 6:53 PM Deborah J. Leslie <<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu" target="_blank">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">I've finally had a chance to watch Brenna Bychowski's Rare Book School virtual presentation on
<a href="https://rarebookschool.org/rbs-online/superheroes-and-shocking-affairs-or-adventures-in-cataloging-popular-literature/" target="_blank">
Superheroes and Shocking Affairs, or, Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature</a>. Informative, entertaining, and very well done; I especially like the way Brenna incorporated general information on the nature of cataloging. Highly recommended!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Brenna's presentation got me to wonder about the post-hand-press materials that cross the desk of rare materials/special collections catalogers. I invite DCRM-L readers
to characterize the kinds of post-1830 material you're asked to catalog, and give a rough ranking of relative quantity?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">I can start (although since 1999 I've been cataloging pre-1831 materials almost exclusively):<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Little Blue Books<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Railroad companies' annual reports, timetables, and maps<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Sunbelt migration advertisements <u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(94,50,124)">Deborah J. Leslie, MA, MLS (she/her) | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | 202.675-0369 | <a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu" target="_blank">djleslie@folger.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.folger.edu" target="_blank">www.folger.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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