<div dir="ltr">Many changes to our OPAC records get done incrementally, or through automation, so the machine-readable history of the record can be misleading (which is one of the reasons I log out of my "Blake" account and into my "BlakeGDC" account when making "Global Data Changes" -- If the ILS shows that "Erin Blake" made an edit, it must have been something I was doing consciously, record-by-record. If the ILS shows that "Blake Global Data Change" it was a bulk update of some kind, so if the note says "Provenance: Manuscript Ellen Smith" you can be pretty sure it used to say "Provenance: Ms. Ellen Smith", and the change was part of a batch update to expand abbreviations).<div><br></div><div>We track cataloger's initials in a non-displaying <a href="https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/MARC_583_Action_Note">MARC 583 Action note</a>. Usually the information is only administrative, but if the revision is a change that would make a researcher returning to the same item wonder if it really was the same item, we'll give details. Some examples:</div><div><table style="border:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:"Times New Roman""><tbody><tr><th nowrap align="RIGHT" valign="TOP" style="background-color:rgb(231,231,231);color:rgb(102,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">583</th><td dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-weight:bold">__<strong style="line-height:normal"> |a </strong>revised<strong style="line-height:normal"> |c </strong>2020-05<strong style="line-height:normal"> |k </strong>EB<strong style="line-height:normal"> |x </strong>Title and description reverted to Two gentlemen. Had been misidentified as the Tailor scene from Taming of the Shrew in 2012<strong style="line-height:normal"> |2 </strong>local<strong style="line-height:normal"> |5 </strong>DFo</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div>and</div><div><table style="border:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:"Times New Roman""><tbody><tr><th nowrap align="RIGHT" valign="TOP" style="background-color:rgb(231,231,231);color:rgb(102,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">583</th><td dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-weight:bold">0_<strong style="line-height:normal"> |a </strong>revised<strong style="line-height:normal"> |c </strong>2020-07<strong style="line-height:normal"> |k </strong>EB<strong style="line-height:normal"> |x </strong>Former owner heading and note changed based on info in MEI Owners of Incunabula database. Previously "Olirocchi, Josephus Carolus Crotta" and "Carolus Crotta Olirocchi [?]"<strong style="line-height:normal"> |2 </strong>local<strong style="line-height:normal"> |5 </strong>DFo</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>and</div><div><table style="border:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:"Times New Roman""><tbody><tr><th nowrap align="RIGHT" valign="TOP" style="background-color:rgb(231,231,231);color:rgb(102,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">583</th><td dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-weight:bold">0_<strong style="line-height:normal"> |a </strong>revised<strong style="line-height:normal"> |c </strong>2017-02<strong style="line-height:normal"> |k </strong>EB<strong style="line-height:normal"> |x </strong>Other<strong style="line-height:normal"> |x </strong>Updated description of ART Vol. b72: 5 drawings are by Gravelot; previously all were said to be by Hayman<strong style="line-height:normal"> |2 </strong>local<strong style="line-height:normal"> |5 </strong>DFo</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>As for catalogers writing blog posts about what they do.... that's exactly what I'm supposed to be doing right now, but instead I'm advancing the mission of the Folger Shakespeare Library by participating in a discussion about special collections cataloging! </div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://collation.folger.edu/category/cataloging/">https://collation.folger.edu/category/cataloging/</a> for Folger blog posts with the "Cataloging" tag.</div><div><br></div><div>EB.</div><div><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></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:00 AM Christine Megowan <<a href="mailto:cmegowan@gmail.com">cmegowan@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">In most of the institutions where I've worked, if cataloguers' intials were recorded at all, they were primarily used to track productivity and for quality control, especially during training. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In light of recent conversations on prejudicial language in both resources and catalogue records, however, I'm wondering whether a publicly visible date of cataloguing might help to contextualize some of the language appearing our records. Internally, it could certainly help to identify records which are most likely to contain language which has not aged well. <div><br></div><div>Christine Megowan</div><div>(Cataloguing Librarian: Rare Books, Cardiff University | Llyfrgellyd Catalogio: Llyfrau Prin, Pryfisgol Caerdydd)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 2:48 PM Piscitelli, Felicia A <<a href="mailto:f-piscitelli@library.tamu.edu" target="_blank">f-piscitelli@library.tamu.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>Our practice is like LC's, at least since the early 2000's. We use a locally-defined field 948 that includes date, time, abbreviated name of cataloger, and whether the item was original or copy cataloged. It is accessible to patrons if they use the "Technical
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<p>The idea to showcase the work of catalogers dovetails into another recent thread. Instead of having the public see every record a cataloger works on, one can write a blog post or write-up in a newsletter about particular items of interest, or a problem solved
successfully. Most folks interested in rare books would find a Sammelband containing three works by Erasmus printed in the 1520's more fascinating than a technical report on asphalt pavements from the 1980's. :-)
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<p>The problem is, when do catalogers have time to write about interesting stuff they've cataloged?</p>
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<div>Felicia Piscitelli, M.M., M.L.S.<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloger and Italian Resources Librarian <br>
Cushing Memorial Library & Archives <br>
Texas A&M University<br>
<a href="mailto:f-piscitelli@library.tamu.edu" target="_blank">f-piscitelli@library.tamu.edu</a><br>
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5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843<br>
Tel. 979-458-7880 or 979-845-1951<br>
Fax: 979-845-6238<br>
<a href="http://library.tamu.edu" target="_blank">http://library.tamu.edu</a></div>
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