Hi everyone,
I am Erika Delbecque, and I am currently working as the Assistant
Librarian at St Hilda's College, Oxford. As part of my role, I look
after the college library's collection of around 1000 rare books,
ranging from incunabula to private press items and everything in
between. They are all uncatalogued. As a first step, I have drawn up a
local cataloguing policy, and I have started cataloguing the first few
items. Although I have volunteered at several Special Collections
libraries in the past, this is the first time I am creating rare book
records from scratch. As part of a small team in which there is no
antiquarian cataloguing expertise, I am grateful for this opportunity,
and I think that our discussions today and the practical exercises
tomorrow will be very helpful for me.
Best wishes,
Erika
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Erika Delbecque BA MA MCLIP
Assistant Librarian
St Hilda's College Library
Cowley Place
Oxford OX4 1DY
(01865) 276 849
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