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Dear Lis-Pub-Libs,
In response to Rose Gibson’s earlier enquiry about
possible approaches to the cataloguing of photographic collections, MDA
publishes a series of guidelines on the documentation of photographs via the
Collections Link website at: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/manage_information/documenting_photographs.
These resources include information on acquiring photographic collections,
numbering them and then recording information about them.
We also publish a wide range of resources about the care and
management of photography and film collections at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/special_collection/photo_film.
This includes an extensive guide to the Care
of Photographic Materials and Related Media.
All Collections Link resources are published free of charge
thanks to the support of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
I hope this helps! Always remember that we run a direct
telephone and email advisory service staffed by people with experience of a
range of areas of documentation and collections management practice. To find
out more, visit http://www.collectionslink.org.uk.
Yours sincerely,
Nick Poole
Chief Executive
MDA
-----Original Message-----
> From: lis-pub-libs: UK
Public Libraries
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Rose Gibson
> Sent: 21 September 2007
14:49
> To:
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> Subject: Cataloguing of
photographic collections
>
>
> We are currently
looking at how we catalogue the individual
> photographs we have in
our stock and would be interested to hear how
> other authorities
catalogue and manage their photographic collections.
>
> Our thousands of
photographs are not catalogued individually through
> our LMS and only a
volume of photographs would be catalogued as one
> item on to the system.
Most of our collections are available through
> our photographic
website (www.leodis.net) but this is not suitable
for
> certain images which
fall out of the scope of the website. I would also be interested in knowing if
anyone had digitised original material and then used a product such as
Microsoft iView.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Rose Gibson
> Customer 'e' Services
Manager
> Library and Information
Service
>
> Tel: 0113 247 4882
> Fax: 0113 247 8268
Nick Poole
Chief Executive
MDA
www.mda.org.uk
www.collectionslink.org.uk
Tel:
01223 316028
Fax: 01223 364658
MDA (
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