[DCRM-L] "Slips for Librarians to paste on Catalogue Cards"

Thu Mar 5 12:42:41 MST 2015

Manon –

Yes, that’s the article I referred to.

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Manon Théroux
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I think this must be the article:

Jane Kaser, "The Venerable History of Cataloging-in-Source," Missouri Library Association Quarterly, 20:76-7 (Sept. 1959) . 

-Manon 

On Mar 5, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Donald Farren <dfarren at concentric.net <mailto:dfarren at concentric.net> > wrote:

The original inquiry was about how to describe the slips, so I didn’t follow up with the historical aspects, but, as Richard mentions, they were a precursor of CIP. The slips appear in books published by Holt during the 1880s-1890s. A very progressive idea at the time.

Years ago, I identified a hundred or so of the books in which they appear, and I have a shelfful of them. An article was published on the slips in one of the library journals, the name of the author of which I can’t remember except that she was the wife of David Kaser (so the surname is Kaser). The article is descriptive of the phenomenon and makes the connection with CIP but doesn’t account for what gave rise to the practice or its demise. I thought of writing an article about those aspects, so I searched the finding aid to the Holt archive, and the person who did the article on the Holt archive in that huge Gale series searched the collection for me, but neither of us located any paperwork. I assume that there was a connection with ALA, so I tried to identify the ALA committee that would have been responsible by searching contemporaneous ALA publications but likewise without success.

The slips are the size to be pasted on those half-height card catalogue cards that were used before the larger size was standardized, some of which still, during the 1960s-1970s, existed in the venerable card catalogue cabinets in use at the Providence Athenaeum, but the cataloguer there reported never having seen any of the slips. I thought they might appear in other card catalogues that still contained half-height cards, so I wrote to a few libraries where I thought those cards might be in use, one of which was the Boston Athenaeum, but I received negative reports.

That’s all I can report without getting out of my chair to look at my records (if I could find them now).

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu <mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu>  [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Noble, Richard
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It's CIP (quite literally, even though some 82 years avant la lettre), so "CIP leaf?"--a somewhat lighthearted suggestion.

- Has anyone else seen one?

- Could we see an image of this one? I'm curious to see what 1889 CIP looks like.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY

BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187

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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Matthew C. Haugen <matthew.haugen at columbia.edu <mailto:matthew.haugen at columbia.edu> > wrote:

Hello,

I recently came across something in a book I haven't seen before: printed descriptions of the book meant to be excised and pasted onto library catalog cards. 

The book is Our familiar songs and those who made them. New York : Henry Holt and company, 1889.

The text printed on the preliminary leaf begins: "Slips for Librarians to paste on Catalogue Cards. N.B.--Take out carefully, leaving about quarter of an inch at the back. To do otherwise would, in some cases, release other leaves." This is followed by the text for for 5 cards, for author, title, a variant title and two subject entries.

>From the description and signing pattern, I take this to be an integral leaf. I imagine some copies might have only a stub suggesting that this leaf was removed. Or, perhaps this was a separate issue distributed to libraries and this text wasn't included in all copies?  I have a copy of the Holt 1881 edition which has a blank preliminary in this place. 

It does seem to be an interesting case, but I'm not sure how best to describe it, nor can I find an obvious term in the controlled vocabularies. I'll consider proposing one if needed. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Matthew

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