<div dir="ltr">Hi Liz,<div><br></div><div>I include that history when I do retrospective conversion of items. I don't include catalogers' names because most of what I have is initials for people long dead and I don't see a reason to identify the individuals. When known, I try to identify the catalog from which an item was purchased
(with a 510 4), indicate the date of the purchase (staff from previous generations would routinely write this information in pencil in the gutter two or three pages after the title page), and indicate the date it was cataloged (in the 1920s, the date of cataloging could be years after the date of purchase). Of course if there are any property stamps or bookseller stamps within the volume I record that too. Unless the item is a manuscript, I put all this information in local fields.</div><div><br></div><div>As you observe, it's important provenance information.</div><div><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><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"><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>
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