Sorry everyone. I've been having trouble posting to the group this morning. Hopefully this will now work.
From: Matthew Baalham
Sent: 15 April 2015 11:04
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Subject: Routes into Rare Books
Hello everyone.
My route into rare books cataloguing has, I suppose, been partly deliberate and partly by accident. My degree was in history and I've always maintained this interest, which is what mostly attracts me to rare books. I started out doing a one year graduate trainee job at Lambeth Palace Library, where I was exposed to rare books and archives, and learned cataloguing on the job. I continued working at Lambeth Palace whilst completing my MA at UCL, and opted for the rare books module while there. After qualifying, my first job, after some temping, was at the RIBA library, as a cataloguer, but I did not really get to work with the rare books or archives at that library, though it had them. After a short spell away from libraries in the USA, I subsequently landed a job with the Bowes Museum in County Durham for one year, working on an HLF project to establish a library and archive in the museum. Unfortunately, one year's funding was not nearly enough to do this, and in many ways the project had been poorly conceived. I was working with the rare books collection, but was not able to develop it in ways I would have liked to. After this I worked for Tyndale House in Cambridge, a theological library with a modern working collection. As the role was part time, I was able to do some voluntary cataloguing work at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and at the Rare Books Department in the University Library. After about a year of this, I obtained the position of Assistant Librarian/Rare Books Cataloguer at Longleat House in Wiltshire, where I have been for about 4 years.
I'm doing what I love, but also making the most of the experiences I happened to have.
Matthew Baalham
From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karen Pierce
Sent: 15 April 2015 09:59
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Rare book cataloguing
Good morning and welcome to the CIG rare books cataloguing e-forum from your three moderators, Karen Pierce (Cardiff University), Katie Flanagan (Brunel University) and Iris O'Brien (The British Library), we'll be here between 10am and 4pm over the next couple of days. We're delighted to have a number of people signed up to the e-forum and are looking forward to sharing knowledge, experience and questions as we consider the following topics:
Wed 15th April (10-4)
10-12.30: Routes into rare book cataloguing
2-4: Standards and Provenance
Thursday 16th April (10-4)
10-12.30: Looking at practical examples
2-3: Continue looking at practical examples
3-4: Any other queries?
This will help give some direction to our discussions but they aren't set in stone, so don't feel you can't post something you wanted to talk about if you are only around at a particular time of day. If you're posting about something new, then please give your subject header a relevant title so that those participating can keep track of conversations more easily and include [CIG-E-FORUM] in the header to aid those who are filtering mail into a separate folder. We'll have a lunch break between 12.30 and 2, but please feel free to keep posting over this time as well.
Tomorrow's session will focus on practical examples. The links to early printed books for the practical exercise are on the CIG website, alongside a template to create your own records: http://www.cilip.org.uk/cataloguing-indexing-group/events/cig-e-forum-rare-books-cataloguing
We hope people will share their records with the e-forum on the second day; it is not compulsory to submit the records if you just want to have a go in private but we would encourage people to do so. You only need to complete those fields and subfields you think are necessary for each title and feel free to add extra fields to the form where necessary (e.g. additional note or subject fields). We would like to assure you that shared records won't be 'marked' or 'judged' in any way and that we expect that the records submitted won't all be identical. In fact, it's the differences in records which will aid our discussions.
On a practical note it might be worth me mentioning at the start of the day that messages sometimes take a little while to appear on JISCmail lists, so if your message doesn't appear straight away then please don't worry or re-send. We're not moderating the list, so it will get through.
So, to kick us off for today, please feel free to introduce yourselves to the list and either tell us how you got into rare book cataloguing (if it's a role you already have), or feel welcome to ask questions about it.
Karen
Dr Karen Pierce
Cataloguing Librarian
Cataloguing Department
University Library Service
Cardiff University
PO BOX 430
1st Floor
30-36 Newport Road
Cardiff
CF24 0DE
Tel: (029) 20875680
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Dr Karen Pierce
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