12/08
Continuing with the J. R. Paul boxes, I filled out old fashioned carbon copy call slips for the med hist duplicates, and Flo let me into the locked stacks to pull them (I do not and probably will not have ID access). 18th century and earlier have no call numbers and are shelved in a separate, locked aread than19th, to which I also have no access. Today I searched all the 19th Cent. dupes and found all but four on the shelves. The four NOS were most likely being digitized for Internet Archive: roughly 3000 items (according to Flo) are currently away for that project, and most of them were not pulled with the placeholder method (says Tom who was shelving and shifting in 19th Cent.)
Next, I paired up our copies with the J.R. Paul duplicates and Melissa inspected them to decide which ones to add, and which ones to swap out with our copy. They would also get a 590 field for provenance and other descriptive notes; I looked up field 590 in OCLC, but wording the notes will still be a challenge.
I offered to add item records to every book, including the ones already in our collection since almost none of those had barcodes either. George was kind enough to supply me with barcodes which are not to be stuck into rare books, I was told, instead they go on a card bearing the call number which then gets inserted into the book.
I set up (despite a less than cooperative computer) in Voyager Cat. After much wrangling (setting preferences, trying to connect a printer, linking item records of copies 1 and 2, googling for some old hospital in illegible town in Rhode Island I finally had my record; and Voyager returned it with a nonsensical error list (e.g. $a missing in fields where it was clearly NOT missing?) saved it to pdf to show Melissa next time...P.S. I like Melissa because she says things like “...and it’s on the 1872 Cholera Epidemic... that was a fun epidemic.”
Continuing with the J. R. Paul boxes, I filled out old fashioned carbon copy call slips for the med hist duplicates, and Flo let me into the locked stacks to pull them (I do not and probably will not have ID access). 18th century and earlier have no call numbers and are shelved in a separate, locked aread than19th, to which I also have no access. Today I searched all the 19th Cent. dupes and found all but four on the shelves. The four NOS were most likely being digitized for Internet Archive: roughly 3000 items (according to Flo) are currently away for that project, and most of them were not pulled with the placeholder method (says Tom who was shelving and shifting in 19th Cent.)
Next, I paired up our copies with the J.R. Paul duplicates and Melissa inspected them to decide which ones to add, and which ones to swap out with our copy. They would also get a 590 field for provenance and other descriptive notes; I looked up field 590 in OCLC, but wording the notes will still be a challenge.
I offered to add item records to every book, including the ones already in our collection since almost none of those had barcodes either. George was kind enough to supply me with barcodes which are not to be stuck into rare books, I was told, instead they go on a card bearing the call number which then gets inserted into the book.
I set up (despite a less than cooperative computer) in Voyager Cat. After much wrangling (setting preferences, trying to connect a printer, linking item records of copies 1 and 2, googling for some old hospital in illegible town in Rhode Island I finally had my record; and Voyager returned it with a nonsensical error list (e.g. $a missing in fields where it was clearly NOT missing?) saved it to pdf to show Melissa next time...P.S. I like Melissa because she says things like “...and it’s on the 1872 Cholera Epidemic... that was a fun epidemic.”
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