<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Dear Thumy, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">We get a fair number of interleaved books. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">If the interleaved pages are blank or mostly blank, I would not make a second record for the interleaved version, since it was presumably interleaved when it was bound rather than when it was published (unless you can find evidence to the contrary). I would use the same OCLC record for both items and add a local note indicating that copy # is missing the portrait, includes X number of blank or mostly blank leaves, and is bound in two volumes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">If the interleaved pages were heavily annotated, however, I might create a separate manuscript record for the interleavings with a 501 noting that it is bound with copy # <i>Principia</i>. Then I would put both copies of the <i>Principia</i> on the OCLC record, add a local note indicating that copy # is missing the portrait and bound with the manuscript in two volumes, and then link the item records for the manuscript and copy # of the <i>Principia</i> in my ILS. If that makes sense?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Jessie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM Thumy Webb via DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.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"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hello,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I don't often catalog rare materials (sadly!) and am looking for some advice. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have two copies of Newton's <i>Principia </i>from 1726. One copy appears to be the volume described in OCLC #2185758. The second copy also appears to be the one described in that OCLC record <i>except</i> it was bound as two separate volumes with blanks interleaved, and is missing the portrait.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Should I make a new bib record for the interleaved version? Do I use the same OCLC record for both copies and explain the interleaving (is that a word?) in a local note? Something else?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for any advice/opinions you can provide!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">--Thumy</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">_____________________________________</font></span></font></div><font color="#000000"><i><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thumy Webb, </font></span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Original Cataloging Librarian</span></font></i></font><div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Fondren Library ·</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Rice University </span><font face="verdana, sans-serif">·</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Houston, TX</span></div><div><a href="mailto:thumy.webb@rice.edu" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank">thumy.webb@rice.edu</a><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> · 713-348-2604</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>Schedule a meeting with me in <a href="https://calendar.app.google/ZYPnSA9rRVW5PWgM9" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a></i></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Jessie Sherwood<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Associate Librarian<br></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">The Robbins Collection and Research Center<br></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">University of California Berkeley, School of Law<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Tel: 510.643.1236<br></span></div></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="mailto:jcsherwood@law.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">jcsherwood@law.berkeley.edu</a></span><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>