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

[Noble, Richard]

Jane Kaser's article is referenced in *Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science* (1970) v.4, "Cataloging-in-Source", by Elspeth Pope,
written immediately before institution of the current CIP program (whole
article yielded up via a Google search). Pope discusses early attempts at a
centralized CIS program that proved logistically unwieldy and was abandoned
in 1880, but says nothing about the sort of slips that are found in the
Henry Holt books.

Without having seen Kaser's article, but in view of its date of publication
and brevity, I assume that she was mostly reporting the unhappy conclusion
of the 1958-9 LC Cataloging-in-Source experiment.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
<Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Manon Théroux <manon.theroux at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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> 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).
>
>
>
>
>
> Donald Farren
>
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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu
> <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Noble, Richard
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 05, 2015 11:06 AM
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] CV question
>
>
>
> 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
>
> <Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Matthew C. Haugen <
> 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
>
>
>
> --
>
> --
> Matthew C. Haugen
> Rare Book Cataloger
> 102 Butler Library
> Columbia University Libraries
> E-mail: matthew.haugen at columbia.edu
> Phone: 212-851-2451
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