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Tad: recataloging our 1492 copy of Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of witches) to record marginalia that appears to originate from Poland, Slovakia.
Lisa:
Indigenous peoples headings: we have approval and funding to change catalog subject language describing Indigenous peoples of North and South America with terminology other than “Indians”, partnering with Backstage. Collecting records to send forward for this project requires individual searches to sort through the various uses in our catalog of the term “Indian” in subject headings. Working to have this complete before migration to Folio.
Visit to State Library of Victoria: a great exhibit on history of books, including coverage of marginalia. Also saw coverage of their zine collection. See videos on their YouTube channel.
Tim: now managing the Map Library’s Instagram account.
Nicole: re: contacting creators from above, Nicole worked with Elisa who contacted a creator group on Nicole’s behalf via Instagram, and got back a history of the group that way.
Joshua: working on a Sierra cleanup project to convert links in 880 fields to now-defunct 440 fields for series statements/headings. Considering re-overlaying these records from WorldCat. Had some group discussion on implications, ideas.
CMS 2022.02.01
Special Collections Paging Procedures for Catalogers
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