[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Cataloging library special collections in aspace?

[Nic Stanton-Roark]

Hi Kate,

This is incredibly helpful, and what you describe is actually quite close
to our use case. Thank you so much for sharing.

<https://anderson.edu/>

NIC DON STANTON-ROARK

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Nicholson Library

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On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 4:58 PM Bowers, Kate A. <kate_bowers at harvard.edu>
wrote:

> We have two collections where we ended up using finding aids (now in
> ArchivesSpace—they were migrated in). The purposes for each were different.
>
>
>
> https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua36010/catalog : John Rawls’ library,
> has a few non-book items, but chiefly the metadata was obtained by
> copy-cataloging the books, adding holdings and a 700 field for “Former
> owner” and grabbing selected fields from library catalog records. This data
> was then converted to EAD. The finding aid serves as a “binder” to
> understand the scope and significance of the library as a whole. This was
> processed in the last couple of decades. Having these in the general
> catalog as well as in a finding aid has absolutely lead to the heavy use of
> this collection.
>
>
>
> https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua16008/catalog : Phi Beta Kappa has no
> bibliographic records, the finding aid is the only description we have for
> this legacy collection that we don’t have resources to catalog (something
> that might be remedied soon), so this is our best effort.
>
>
>
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> Stanton-Roark
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> *Subject:* [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Cataloging library special
> collections in aspace?
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>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have experience with or examples of cataloging special
> collections primarily of printed monographs but also some archival type
> objects like correspondence, manuscripts, etc? Would love to collect a
> broad set of examples for an upcoming project.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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> *NIC DON STANTON-ROARK*
>
> Archivist
>
> Nicholson Library
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> o: 765.641.4285
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> He/Him
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