[DCRM-L] Shelf list card catalog.

[Mary Person]

Hello all,

Here at Harvard Law School Library we still maintain a shelf list, too,
for similar reasons.

But also, the shortcomings of retrospective conversion have made it
critical to keep the shelf list. For example, copy specific info from
the backs of cards, such as "Bound with"  often didn't make it to the
online catalog records. And when successive editions were listed as
"Same" on the old card, they were often ignored in recon. So the shelf
list is still the best record we have of the library's pre-recon
holdings.   

Mary 

Mary Person
Rare Books Cataloger
Special Collections
Harvard Law School Library


-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Johnson, Elizabeth L.
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:48 AM
To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Shelf list card catalog.

Hello,  At the Lilly Library also maintain a shelf list card catalog 
for many of the same reasons.  The foremost one is for security 
purposes.  We are not fully retrospectively converted so the manual 
shelf list is essential for "shelf listing."

Elizabeth Johnson
Lilly Library
Indiana University

Quoting "Schneider, Nina" <nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu>:

> Hello Oksana
>
> We at the Clark maintain a shelf list for security purposes. It also
> serves as a quick reference for call number schemes and is a backup in
> case our computers fail.
>
> Nina
>
> +-------
> Nina Schneider
> Head Cataloger
> William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
> 2520 Cimarron Street
> Los Angeles, CA  90018
>
> 323-731-8529
> nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu]
On
> Behalf Of Oksana K. Linda
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:37 AM
> To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
> Subject: [DCRM-L] Shelf list card catalog.
>
> Hello:
>
> We're currently questioning a necessity of maintaining a shelf list
card
> catalog. Do other rare book libraries still keep up with the shelf
list?
>
> Thank you for your thoughts on this matter.
>
> Oksana Linda.
>
> Oksana Katerine Linda
> Rare Book Cataloger
> University of Michigan
> William L. Clements Library
> 909 South University
> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
>
>
>