<div dir="ltr">Our finding aids do credit the person or people who created them, but our OPAC records only have initials, and those initials are only viewable in "MARC View" of the OPAC. A public list of initials gives researchers an idea of when an item was cataloged (<a href="https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Initials_in_catalog_records">https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Initials_in_catalog_records</a>) and a staff-only version of the same list gives full names of the cataloger, and their areas of specialization. Researcher services staff sometimes use this as a way to (silently) evaluate the credibility of the record. <div><br></div><div>Several people at our institution want catalogers' names to be included in records, since they believe catalogers should get "credit" for their scholarship, same as if they'd written an article, or a blog post, or any other thing where names are routinely attached. Personally, I prefer to remain invisible! The record I'm making might be mostly based on copy, and I don't want to take credit for someone else's work. I also don't want to be blamed for someone else's bad work. Happy to be blamed for my <i>own </i>bad work, but you can't tell who did what in a MARC record.</div><div><br></div><div>Erin.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">______________________<br></span></a><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Erin Blake, Ph.D. | Senior Cataloger | Folger
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 3:33 PM Liz Adams <<a href="mailto:elizabeth.adams@duke.edu">elizabeth.adams@duke.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">I’m currently convening a group at my institution looking at issues related to “provenance” (very broadly defined). One of the areas we’re thinking about is if we should ever include the name of the cataloger and the date an item was cataloged
in a field that would display publicly. Right now, we track our cataloging stats through cataloger IDs that do not display in our public interface. Manuscript processor here do typically include names and relevant processing dates in finding aids. As a side
note, AMREMM also includes “Cataloging History’ (7B27) that has an example including cataloger’s name.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My question is: Does your institution ever include cataloging history information related to print material or unique items in a field that display publicly? And if so, would you mind sharing those cases?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks so much for considering!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Liz <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Liz Adams<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Rare Materials Cataloger<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Duke University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Durham, NC 27708<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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