[DCRM-L] Machine-press special collections

[Matthew Ducmanas]

Great question, Deborah. I'm curious to see the answers to this as well.
And I'll also echo that Brenna gave a fantastic and interesting
presentation. Well done!

Similar to Christine, I'd say the bulk (90%+) of what I have cataloged in
my position at Temple University has been post-1830. We also have a wide
range of collections but here are some examples of what I have spent a good
chunk of time cataloging and that regularly cross my desk:

   - Early 20th century fine/small press publications
   - Science fiction mass market paperbacks
   - Artists' books
   - 1960s-present radical literature
   - Zines (I spent much of last year cataloging a large collection of
   these)
   - materials relating to Philadelphia (all dates but much is post-1830)
   - university-related publications
   - printing/publishing/bookselling collections (all dates but much is
   post-1830)
   - early African-American literature
   - materials published by the Jewish Publication Society and relating to
   Philadelphia's Jewish community

Not surprisingly, much of what I catalog falls into one of the categories
listed here on the SCRC's Collecting Emphases page:
https://library.temple.edu/categories/scrc-collections

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:30 AM Christine DeZelar-Tiedman <dezel002 at umn.edu>
wrote:

> Probably around 90% of what I catalog at the University of Minnesota
> Libraries is post-1831. We have a wide range of collections, so ranking in
> quantity would be difficult, but here is a list of examples:
>
>
>    - Artists' books (20th-21st century)
>    - Self-published and print on demand monographs (Sherlock Holmes,
>    autobiographies, LGBTQ)
>    - Zines
>    - Erotica (primarily LGBTQ), including periodicals and pulp novels
>    - Publications of US immigrant communities (newspapers, periodicals,
>    church histories)
>    - Monographs and serials on computing history
>    - 19th-21st century monographs (many mass-market) that we collect due
>    to provenance or subject focus (African American literature, Sherlock
>    Holmes, LGBTQ, Social Welfare)
>    - Children's literature, including picture books, series fiction,
>    periodicals, AV materials
>    - Dime novels
>    - Modern Greek literature
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 6:53 PM Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Rare Materials Catalogers:
>>
>>
>>
>> I've finally had a chance to watch Brenna Bychowski's Rare Book School
>> virtual presentation on Superheroes and Shocking Affairs, or, Adventures
>> in Cataloging Popular Literature
>> <https://rarebookschool.org/rbs-online/superheroes-and-shocking-affairs-or-adventures-in-cataloging-popular-literature/>.
>> Informative, entertaining, and very well done; I especially like the way
>> Brenna incorporated general information on the nature of cataloging. Highly
>> recommended!
>>
>>
>>
>> Brenna's presentation got me to wonder about the post-hand-press
>> materials that cross the desk of rare materials/special collections
>> catalogers. I invite DCRM-L readers to characterize the kinds of post-1830
>> material you're asked to catalog, and give a rough ranking of relative
>> quantity?
>>
>>
>>
>> I can start (although since 1999 I've been cataloging pre-1831 materials
>> almost exclusively):
>>
>>    - Little Blue Books
>>    - Railroad companies' annual reports, timetables, and maps
>>    - Sunbelt migration advertisements
>>
>> ______________________________
>>
>> Deborah J. Leslie, MA, MLS (she/her) | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201
>> East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | 202.675-0369 |
>> djleslie at folger.edu | www.folger.edu
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Christine DeZelar-Tiedman
> Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian | University of Minnesota
> Libraries
> 160 Wilson Library | 309 19th Ave. S. | Minneapolis, MN 55455
> dezel002 at umn.edu | (612) 625-0381
> she, her, hers
>
>
>
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