[DCRM-L] Call no. flags

[Mary Person]

Here we use strips of acid-free paper and pencil the call numbers on the
front and system i.d. number on the verso, at the time of cataloging.
Neat hand writing helps!

Many years ago the library used paper strips with cutout flaps with the
same result that Eric Holzenberg describes below --they were also
non-acidic. Two reasons why we now replace them whenever we come across
them. 

Since they do fall out sometimes, we also write the system i.d. no.
(discretely) in the book.

 

Mary Person

Rare Books Cataloger

Historical & Special Collections 

Harvard Law School Library

 

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Eric Holzenberg
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Call no. flags

 

A warning about those cutout flaps, if the strip is made from
card-stock: yes, they do a great job of holding the strip in the text
block, but they also make it horribly easy to damage the page to which
the strip is fixed: the slightest knock of the strip against the
underside of a shelf, say, and you've torn that text page.  

 

Eric Holzenberg

Director

The Grolier Club

47 East 60th Street

New York, NY  10022

phone: 212/838-6690 ext. 1

fax: 212/838-2445

e-mail: ejh at grolierclub.org

website: www.grolierclub.org <http://www.grolierclub.org/> 

 

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Sotelo, Aislinn
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:57 PM
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We use them and we type the call number, main entry and title with a
typewriter. It makes it very clear for paging.  Ours have a little
cutout flap so it holds to the page where we place it better, but we
also write the call number in the item. Since I type them right after I
catalog something, there's no confusion about mixing up streamers and
putting them in the wrong book, etc. 

 

Aislinn Sotelo

 

Special Collections Cataloger, UC San Diego Libraries | ( 858-534-6766 |
* asotelo at ucsd.edu  

 

 

 

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Schneider, Nina
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:48 AM
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We use them here at the Clark.

 

Cut from acid-free folders for a bit of sturdiness, written in Pigma
Micron archival ink.

 

Good=easy to spot call # 

 

Bad=easy to fall out, or be separated from book/print/&c. So we also
write call # in the item.

 

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
  

 

 

 

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Ryan
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:37 AM
To: 'DCRM Revision Group List'
Subject: [DCRM-L] Call no. flags

To those of you that use call no. flags in your books: would you mind
giving me an ever-so-brief summary of how they are prepared? Of
particular interest are compelling arguments for/against hand-written
flags.

 

Thanks,

Ryan

 

--

Ryan Hildebrand

Book Cataloging Dept. Head

Harry Ransom Center

University of Texas at Austin

P.O. Box 7219

Austin, TX 78713-7219

512-232-1681

www.hrc.utexas.edu <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/> 

 

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