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Beinecke Rare Book Cataloging Manual

General Information

Beinecke Library Staff Site
Beinecke Technical Services Mission Statement
Bibliographic Description Unit SharePoint
General Principles of Beinecke Cataloging
Physical Care of Volumes
Rare Book Cataloging Staff Site

Curatorial Areas

General Collection
Osborn Collection
Yale Collection of American Literature

Zac
James Weldon Johnson Collection
Yale Collection of German Literature
Yale Collection of Western Americana

Collections

Bailey Collection
College Pamphlets
Completed Name Collections
Elizabethan Club Collection
Friedlander
Miniature Collection
Nazraeli Press
New Directions
NYRB Classics
Palmquist WIPA
Publication Studio
Reference Collection
Speck
Tanselle Collection of American Imprints
Valesio Collection

Formats

3-D Objects
Cartographic (Maps)

Atlases
Composite Atlases
Graphics

Playing Cards
Monographs

Belles-Lettres
Copy Cataloging
Preferred DCRM(B) practices
Notated Music
Serials

Adds
Current Subsciptions
Special Types
Textual Manuscripts

Procedures

Art Storage
Barcodes

Barcode Placement
Multiparts and Serials
Born Digital Materials
Bound-With Volumes
Broadsides
ESTC Reporting
Fund Codes
Local Processing Notes and RLA Recon Clean-up
LSF

LSF Permanently Withdrawing Barcodes
Marking of Volumes
Phonograph Records
Source Marking
Statistics
Substitutions and Withdrawals
Transfers to Beinecke Library

Description and Access

Accompanying Material
Analytics
Bibliographies
Bindings and Binders
Call Numbers
Collection-Level Records

Local Collections
List of Local Collections
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Ethnic Literature Tracings
Genre/Form Terms
Imprint Tracings (MARC 700/710 and 752)
Incunabula
LGBTQ Resources
Local Subdivisions
Material from the Manuscript Unit
Number Line in Modern Trade Publications
Prepublication Copies
Printings within an Edition
Private Presses
Protest Works
Provenance Notes and Tracings

Special Provenance Instructions
Publishers' Dummies
Recording Dates in 264 Fields
Recording Dates in the 260 Field
Single-Sheet Publications
United States Congress Tracings

Cataloging Resources

Cataloging at Yale

Authority Control at Yale
Ask NACO@Yale
NACO Records for Rare Materials
Nominative Forms of Latin Names
Paleographic Resources (MS Word)
Pre-1800 Book Trade Personnel
Signature-Pagination Table
Standard Reference Works

Links

ABAA Glossary of Book Collecting Terms
ABC for Book Collectors (PDF)
Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
Cataloger's Desktop
Classification Web
ESTC
ESTC (Web matching)
Heritage of the Printed Book
LC Authorities
LC Catalog
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
RBMS Controlled Vocabularies
RBMS Latin Place Names
RBMS Resources for Rare Materials Catalogers

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