[DCRM-L] Machine-press special collections

[Jane Wickenden]

The library I curate first opened in 1828 and did a certain amount of
retrospective acquisition by asking round the group it was designed to
serve, that is, naval surgeons and physicians. The group also included some
book materials, so there is a noticeable, if small, sector of material
dated between 1564-1830. The core of the collection, however, dates from
1830-1870, with a smaller proportion 1870-1900 and an even smaller "tail"
1900-1948.

   - Medical textbooks including large-format illustrated works
   - Surgical books ditto
   - Surgical and medical periodicals
   - Natural history books ditto
   - Voyages and travels
   - Ethnography and anthropology, ditto
   - Medical botany, not necessarily large format, but often illustrated
   - Random (very random) arts-related material, usually donated or
   bequeathed for extra-curricular reading but hoovered up into the rest of
   the collection over the years.

Best wishes,

Jane


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On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 14:36, Matthew Ducmanas <matthew.ducmanas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> 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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