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Re: special collections question
Christine: I am in the position of dealing with rare books as well as
archives and have faced the same question. I found the ACRL Standards
website helpful at http://www.ala.org/acrl/guides/index.html. Another
really helpful site is the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee site at
http://www.library.upenn.edu/ipc/rarecat.html. Good luck. LMc
At 11:02 AM 6/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
>This is not quite germane to the list, but I'm not on any kind of
>special collections listserve, and I know that many academic
>archivists do special collections as well. I am in the process of
>starting a special collection of books published by the Culinary
>Institute and its faculty. This will be kept in the rare books room,
>with limited access, as a sort of archive of what the Institute has
>published over the years.
>
>I am wondering how much or how little to mark up these books. So far,
>I have only written an accession number on the back flyleaf. Do people
>with similar collections use property stamps in them at all?
>
>
>
>Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
>Special Collections Librarian/Archivist
>
>(note change of address as of May 2000)
>Culinary Institute of America
>1946 Campus Drive
>Hyde Park, NY 12538
>(914) 451-1757
>c_crawfo@culinary.edu
>
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