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

[Kate Moriarty]

Thank you, Alex and Larry. Alex, I missed that part of Folgerpedia when I
checked, thanks for pointing it out. We will probably do as you both say.

Thanks,
Kate



On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Laurence S. Creider <lcreider at lib.nmsu.edu>
wrote:

> Kate,
> I am normally in favor of preserving ephemera associated with books, but I
> am a bit stumped here.  What is the purpose of preserving the paper?
>
> My question would be what is this blank piece of paper evidence of or for?
> Sometimes I use blank pieces of paper (or restaurant receipts) to mark my
> place in a book that I am reading, sometimes to mark the index or notes
> when I find I am making frequent reference to them as I read the book.
> When I finish the book, I may just put the paper anywhere in the book or
> just throw it out.  I frequently put pieces of paper in books or journals
> in which I am photocopying pages (I know, old-fashioned).  I might insert
> a piece of paper to indicate something I want to share or to quote in a
> talk or even to find again.  With the exception of the photocopying, any
> of these purposes might have motivated someone from the time of printing
> forward.  While the type and condition of the blank paper may give me some
> idea of when the book was read, that will usually only be narrowed to a
> century or so unless a watermark is present.  Once there is writing, even
> probationes pennae, the matter changes, of course.
>
> I will be interested to hear what others can teach me about this.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
> --
> Laurence S. Creider
> Head, Archives and Special Collections Dept.
> University Library
> New Mexico State University
> Las Cruces, NM  88003
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>
> On Thu, June 18, 2015 9:15 am, Kate Moriarty wrote:
> > 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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> > Professor  |  Pius XII Memorial Library  |  Room 320-2
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> >
>
>
>


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Professor  |  Pius XII Memorial Library  |  Room 320-2
Saint Louis University  |  3650 Lindell Blvd . |  St. Louis, MO 63108  |
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