<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">For the past few months I've been cataloging a collection of over 200 songsters, primarily American, the bulk of them from about 1850-1890. Unlike most entries that I'm able to find in Worldcat, I am making sure I add contents notes for each song text (noting the few instances that contain musical notation). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Because of the fragility of many of these publications, I'm making ample use of the University of Pittsburgh's extensively digitized collection, although one must look
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for different "editions" or pagination.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>And if anyone doubts the racism rampant in the second half of the 19th century, one need not go further than a typical American songster.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Librarian, Rare Books and Manuscripts,<br>Music & Recorded Sound Division </div><div>The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span><br></div><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-right:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-right:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></span></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.nypl.org" target="_blank">www.nypl.org</a></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><ul>On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:53 PM Deborah J. Leslie <<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu" target="_blank">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<br></ul></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><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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