<div dir="ltr"><div><div>The library I curate first opened in 1828 and did a certain amount of retrospective acquisition by asking round the group it was designed to serve, that is, naval surgeons and physicians. The group also included some book materials, so there is a noticeable, if small, sector of material dated between 1564-1830. The core of the collection, however, dates from 1830-1870, with a smaller proportion 1870-1900 and an even smaller "tail" 1900-1948.</div><ul><li>Medical textbooks including large-format illustrated works</li><li>Surgical books ditto</li><li>Surgical and medical periodicals</li><li>Natural history books ditto</li><li>Voyages and travels</li><li>Ethnography and anthropology, ditto</li><li>Medical botany, not necessarily large format, but often illustrated</li><li>Random (very random) arts-related material, usually donated or bequeathed for extra-curricular reading but hoovered up into the rest of the collection over the years.</li></ul><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Jane <br></div></div><br><div id="m_-7630676707726822313DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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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">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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