[DCRM-L] Question on blank-paper ephemera in books

[Kate Moriarty]

Dear colleagues,

You've helped me before with our ephemera procedures. We are refining those
procedures and were wondering, do you record/process/or otherwise
acknowledge blank pieces of paper found in books? If so, do you do it
across the board or does your practice depend on the paper or the age of
the book or the collection the book is a part of? Or do you ignore or
remove blank paper (there's only so much time in the day)?

On the one hand, blank paper doesn't carry information beyond the type and
age of the paper. On the other, papers do vary and they are evidence of
reading practice.

Our general current practice is to keep ephemera in place in the book,
enclosed in glassine, and record their presence in a note in the bib
record. We identify three types of ephemera in the bib record: manuscript
ephemera, printed ephemera, and ephemera (catch-all for everything else).

Thanks for any information you can share,
-Kate

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