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Beinecke Rare Book Cataloging Manual

General Information

  • Beinecke Library Staff Site
  • Beinecke Technical Services Mission Statement
  • 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

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
  • Chronology Tracings
  • 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 Literature
  • 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

  • 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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