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

[Matthew C. Haugen]

Thank you all for this useful bibliography and interesting information!

Matthew

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Will Evans <evans at bostonathenaeum.org>
wrote:

> I can re-confirm the lack of these slips in the Boston Athenaeum’s
> half-height card catalogue, which I think is really surprising. What we
> call our Cutter card catalogue, which we kept as an historical reference,
> was started by C.A. Cutter and his assistants in the early 1870’s. We have
> documentation in our archives stating that after ten years of writing out
> the cards (in lovely 19th century penmanship) they realized that less
> than 10% of the collection was represented on the cards. To expedite
> matters they started cutting up the old catalogues they had published in
> book form and pasted those entries on to the cards. I would have thought
> they would have availed themselves of Holt’s slips, but again, they are not
> to be found.
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> Best,
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> Will
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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Donald Farren
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 05, 2015 1:17 PM
> *To:* 'DCRM Users' Group'
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] "Slips for Librarians to paste on Catalogue Cards"
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
> <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
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> It's CIP (quite literally, even though some 82 years *avant la lettre*),
> so "CIP leaf?"--a somewhat lighthearted suggestion.
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> - Has anyone else seen one?
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> - Could we see an image of this one? I'm curious to see what 1889 CIP
> looks like.
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> RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
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> BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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> <Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>
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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Matthew C. Haugen <
> matthew.haugen at columbia.edu> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> The book is Our familiar songs and those who made them. New York : Henry
> Holt and company, 1889.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
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> Matthew
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> 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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Matthew C. Haugen
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