<div dir="ltr">Roughly 60-70% of my cataloging at Vassar involves post-1830 materials. The categories include (not an exhaustive list):<div><br></div><div><ul><li>Artist's and fine press books with an emphasis on the Hudson Valley</li><li>Vassar-related materials</li><li>Books by and about alumni/ae</li><li>Books by faculty</li><li>Books and other materials purchased to support particular courses</li><li>Printed bibles</li><li>Art and book dealers' catalogs</li></ul><div><br></div><div>All best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark Seidl</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 2:20 PM Ann K.D. Myers <<a href="mailto:akdmyers@stanford.edu">akdmyers@stanford.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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Approximately 60% of our cataloging involves post-1830 material including, but not limited to:</div>
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<li>Artists' books, with particular focus on artists from California, Mexico, and Cuba<br>
</li><li>Fine press books</li><li>Photography books<br>
</li><li>British and American novels and poetry (primarily late 19th and early 20th century)</li><li>Plays<br>
</li><li>Comic books</li><li>Dime novels</li><li>Zines</li><li>Newsletters</li><li>Printed ephemera documenting United States presence in Pacific islands including the Philippines, Guam, and Samoa<br>
</li><li>Printed ephemera documenting the Asian immigrant experience in the United States, especially the San Francisco Bay Area<br>
</li><li>Printed ephemera documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps</li><li>Printed ephemera documenting the African American experience<br>
</li><li>Yearbooks</li><li>Games</li><li>Cookbooks</li><li>Political pamphlets</li><li>Travel pamphlets</li><li>Religious pamphlets</li><li>So many pamphlets<br>
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<div>It's so interesting to see how broadly "rare books" are defined across all our institutions!</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 6, 2020 4:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Machine-press special collections</font>
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<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!</span></p>
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<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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<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):</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Little Blue Books</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Railroad companies' annual reports, timetables, and maps</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Sunbelt migration advertisements </span></li></ul>
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<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"></span></p>
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