[DCRM-L] Machine-press special collections

[Karen Attar]

Like Deborah, my material is almost all pre-1831. Later material I have catalogued:

Nazi schoolbooks, 1933-1945;
A collection of editions of Walter de la Mare.

… basically, collections where online records are non-existent or capable of much improvement, or collections where we are trying to express in catalogue records information not regarded as important by AACR2 (e.g. the price on a dust wrapper distinguishing between two issues, where the catalogue does duty for a non-existent bibliography); collections where the intimate knowledge gained from cataloguing might lead to an article.

Karen

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From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> On Behalf Of Matthew Ducmanas
Sent: 07 July 2020 14:36
To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Machine-press special collections

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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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