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(This is a followup to my last post, that I made from a kiosk in the main library with a bad keyboard.)

So my boss brought the parchment sample to the head of special collections, who’s pretty sure that yes in fact, it is most definitely authentic. (At least, he can verify that the materials are in keeping with the 12th century, whither or not it’s authentically from then is another story.) He then in turn handed it off to his assistant, and I now believe it’s living over in special collections. (Where good parchment samples should live.)

There are three things I want to look into with this whole collection.

1) Where did these things come from? Do we have catalog cards for them? (I mean, most of them have card pockets inside, so someone processed them at some point. Did they make cards and the cards were never put into the computer system when that came into being?) Do we have paperwork (like deeds of gift) that would mention any of these items? Only a few have gift bookplates from our institution saying “gift of”.

2) Can we get funding to take care of the million preservation problems I’ve run across in dealing with the collection? We have 18th century parts glued into mid-20th century folders (with bad adhesives!) and manila folders sewn onto part books. Not to mention items that need cleaning or repair and are otherwise in good condition. Is there a grant we can apply for somewhere to fund a preservation specialist to do a survey and a lab to repair and handle items that need treatment?

3) Cataloging! I decided to devote one of my term papers this semester to rare book cataloging (because it’s a good time to pick up information). We should try to make sure that not only is everything cataloged, but that it’s properly cataloged so that special characteristics are accounted for in the records. Again, this might be a grant-type of thing, unless someone can be convinced high up in the administration of the library that we need a proper rare book cataloger to deal with all of these rare books.

Things to do:

• Ask head of special collections about some of the strange cases I’ve found in going through the racks. The most frequent thing I’m finding that’s a problem are bound volumes that are comprised of two or three separate works, sometimes by different composers, but of the same genre. (Mostly, piano arrangements of 19th century Italian operas.) Also, it seems like we have a copy of something that already exists in the special collections proper, but their copy was classed wrong. (They classed it as some sort of literary miscellany, PN something, when it’s a musical songster and should be M something. I learned today that songsters are books that may or may not have music, but do have words to songs.)
• Make sure to let my associates (soon to be three) that anything autographed or otherwise interesting should be noted somewhere for me to see so I can add them to the list of collection highlights (that I still need to write down). Most of the strange stuff crosses my “desk” because anything not in our catalog is left for me to deal with, but anything that is already kind of in the system just goes back on the cart when it’s finished.

Ok, I’m starting to feel like I’m pulling a Col. Gentleman thing with these lists. (Most likely, you, the reader that may or may not read this, has no idea who that is….and that’s ok because I’m a dork.) I’m also finally tired, and Bach has taken over my brain. (I prefer it to Mozart very much, which is what was in my head last week.)