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Re: EADs...was the name of a famous Civil Engineer too



I have reading this thread with some interest, since I recently left a small institution that still used a card catalog (remember those?).  I count among my accomplishments adding catalog cards for each manuscript collection I processed or reprocessed.  From working with the collections, I knew there were topics in them that researchers would want, but which would remain "hidden" unless those topics were highlighted through the catalog.  Our patrons could conceivably find all printed and manuscript on a topic or person by using the card catalog, which would then lead them to the volume or the finding aid.

I did create finding aids first, so I could type (yes, on a tyepwriter) the cards following APPM.  However, I constantly made notes about subject headings during processing and while writing the finding aid.  I don't see this as an either/or proposition.  You can only have complete access to a collection through both finding aids and cataloging.  

Just my two cents worth.





Barbara Austen
Project Archivist
Connecticut State Archives
231 Capitol Ave.
Hartford CT 06106
(860) 757-6509
bausten@cslib.org

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