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Re: Photograph Cataloging?



On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Pat Lawton wrote:

> I mean, lots of archivists DO
> "shove em in a box" but not all, dumb response.

Can't help wondering exactly what's wrong with "shov[ing] 'em in a box,"
as long as you produce a good finding aid with file-level access to that
box?

Not all photograph collections warrant item-level MARC cataloging. Not all
repositories have the staff to do item-level photograph cataloging even if
their collections do warrant it. Seems to me that any Univ. of Illinois
Library School prof. who is leading his/her students to believe that a)
all photographs should be cataloged at the item level, and b) file-level
description of photographs in an archival finding aid is somehow
an inappropriate way to provide access to photographic components of
archival collections, probably doesn't know very much about archival
description in the first place and shouldn't be posing as an expert on
this subject.

Just MHO, of course!

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Department of Special Collections    |            University of California
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