Revealed! How to catalogue your hidden archives
“An archive without a catalogue is like a room without a door”: inaccessible, unusable, and the cause of much frustration. …
Category Archives: Cataloguing, description, metadata
Boxes among the bones: embedding an archivist in Arch Sci
The embedded archivist I am delighted to report that we at the University of Bradford now have our own embedded …
“I suspected it was special as soon as I saw it …”: Reading’s Caxton leaf
News of a wonderful find at the University of Reading Special Collections. While cataloguing a collection of fragments, Special Collections …
Beware the Trilemma!
Meet the Trilemma I was thinking about the oft-cited software designer’s “trilemma”: fast, cheap, good. The trilemma for the designer’s …
Cataloguing Made Simpler: key rare book standards freely available online
Cataloguers rejoice! DCRM(B) and DCRM(S) are now freely available online. Here: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmb/index.html Descriptive Cataloging …
Bingo for Buttons: the archive accreditation workshop
Back in September (20th to be exact) I went along to a workshop on archives accreditation. Though I’ve been following …
Code of Practice for Cultural Collections Management
Oops! I realise I haven’t mentioned the Code of Practice for Cultural Collections Management (PAS 197: 2009). The Code is …
The Quick Wins Programme: keywords all over the world
Originally posted on Special Collections – University of Bradford:
We collect Special Collections for people to use, whether in our Reading Room or online wherever…
Making the Case is Key for Music
This post from the Special Collections librarian at the Jerwood Library, Trinity Laban, is inspiring. It tells a story of …
Too Many Collections, So Little Time?
Are you struggling with increasing numbers of users, demand for digital, crumbling collections, unsuitable storage space, intellectual property conundrums, born-digital …
