<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> Hi VivianLea,<div><br></div><div>We will often use AS to provide access to books in our archival collections. The guiding principle is whether the books are in our collection because they are individual book-like objects (and thus should be cataloged individually) or if their value is in their being aggregated material with shared provenance (and thus can be described archivally). For example, we hold a large run of paperback books that came with the Ian and Betty Ballantine papers. Their value and interest here is as a grouping of items, rather than as individual books, so we listed them in a finding aid: <a href="https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_13511438/dsc/2" target="_blank">https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_13511438/dsc/2</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Same for Tennessee Williams's library that was in Key West house when he died: <a href="https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079626/dsc/10">https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079626/dsc/10</a> </div><div><br></div><div>This seems like good use of archival principles to me, and has a secondary advantage of unhiding materials quickly. It would have taken us years to individually catalog the nealy 6,000 books in the Ballantine collection, at the opportunity cost of other materials in the backlog that really do call for the expertise of our wonderful rare book catalogers. </div><div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:06 AM McElheny, Robin G. <<a href="mailto:robin_mcelheny@harvard.edu">robin_mcelheny@harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve done a somewhat similar thing here at the Harvard University Archives: for our John Rawls material, we created two finding aids:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua32010/catalog" target="_blank">https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua32010/catalog</a><u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-3995212379817112388MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Books from the personal library of John Rawls, 1915-2002, HUM 48.1.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We also created bib records for each book in the Rawls personal library, indicating John Rawls as a former owner. Admittedly icing on the cake but this is one of our most heavily-used collections.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nic Stanton-Roark<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 28, 2022 9:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ASpace - Small Archives List (<a href="mailto:archivesspace_small_archives_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_small_archives_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>) <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_small_archives_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_small_archives_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">We do this for the few manuscript collections we hold where we have taken possession of the individuals' personal library. Typically we call the series "library" or "personal library," and either enter book
titles as item level records or attach a pdf listing of the books as an external document at the series level. In some cases, we have digitized versions of notable individuals' (public domain) books to make annotations available, and attach these as item level
records in Personal Library series that otherwise do not have item level description.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">I'm not sure how well all of this gels with EAD, but our first priority is making our holdings intelligible for researchers, and this seems intuitive for our users. I'd be interested to hear any horror stories
from other users about similar setups, though.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:07 AM Solek, VivianLea <<a href="mailto:VivianLea.Solek@kofc.org" target="_blank">VivianLea.Solek@kofc.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy Monday. Here’s a conundrum to start off your week…<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m a lone arranger with a large number of books within my archives. I know that ASpace is not designed to handle books (but it can) and I have no other library catalog at my disposal.
Many of the books could be put within existing collections (defined as artificial assemblages). My thought is to designate the last series in the collection as “books” and add the titles under that series record.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone done anything similar? Thoughts? Concerns? Problems you’ve encountered?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will appreciate any and all feedback on or off list.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MANY thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Kevin Schlottmann<br>Head of Archives Processing<br>Rare Book & Manuscript Library<br>Butler Library, Room 801<br><div>Columbia University</div><div><i>Pronouns: he/him/his</i><br></div>535 W. 114th St., New York, NY 10027<br>(212) 854-8483</div></div></div>