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Usually anything involving the word miscellaneous – found at the end of a lot of our catalogues.

 

 

Kath

Ms Kathleen Shawcross
Borough Archivist & Local Studies Manager
London Borough of Sutton
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From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto:ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Sarah Chubb
Sent: 11 February 2011 15:27
To: ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Bad catalogues

 

Our Friends group has asked me to give them a talk on cataloguing archives.  I'm happy to oblige but am aware that however enthusiastic I am about cataloguing, this could be a rather dry subject.

 

I generally find that examples of bad cataloguing are more instructive than examples of good cataloguing - and humorous examples of bizarre cataloguing would decidedly liven up my talk!  Bad catalogues probably demonstrate more clearly than anything else, all the considerations one has to juggle in deciding how to order and describe items in a collection. 

 

I have a couple of such examples in mind, but I wondered if anybody would be happy to share with me any particularly striking examples of how *not* to catalogue.

 

Needless to say, I am looking for very old examples which wouldn't embarrass anybody today - those catalogues which have been knocking round for decades, produced by long forgotten archivists.  I'm sure we've all made mistakes in the past, so I hasten to add that I'm not looking to name and shame.  Please don't email anything you think might embarrass another listserv member.

 

Thanks,

 

Sarah Chubb

Borough Archivist


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