Hi John:
> We do not have a satisfactory way of cataloguing in-analytics
> here at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. For those of
> you who are not cataloguers, in-analytics are articles in magazines
> acquired by a library because the author or subject of the article is
> of research interest. These articles may be intact in the magazine
> issue or ripped out of it. Often these articles come to us as part
> of larger collections devoted to the author or subject.>>
At my library we have developed a format for the
cataloguing of analytics.
090 We use a local LC call number.
100 1x Author of article from authority field
245 Title as it appears on the article title page
260 Place of publication : |b publisher (if known), |c
year (if known). Often this is in brackets for us as we
must look up the serial where it came from.
300 Descrition: p. nos. from the article, illustration
if any, and measurement.
500 Mention where you got the title from.
600 Often our analytics are articles from authors we
collect, so we usually have a personal name subject in the
record.
700 Seconday author of article if needed
773 0 This is the most important field. It tell you where
you got the article from: |t title of serial |g vol. x, no.
x (Season. year), p. nos. |i issn |w (OCoLC) OCLC no.
> A very thorough approach is to catalogue each article of this
> kind with a separate record, and link this record, electronically or
> otherwise, with the holdings record for the magazine. We have
> thousands of in-analytics and this method of describing and
> classifying them is just beyond us right now. A bare-bones approach
> is to put such things with newspaper clippings, loose illustrations,
> menus, and other odds and ends in what we call our vertical file --
> the articles then would be put with other material by or about the
> author or subject and would not be catalogued individually. Although
> we have used this approach in the past it is quite skimpy and I'm not
> sure that the researcher is well-served.>>
Analytics are quite complicated and very time-consuming. So
the vertical file idea can save some time. If you must save
time, is there anyway that you can have a finding aid to
the articles in the vertical file? It would not be a
national thing but you could have them not only on file but
as an HTML file as well.
> But I write this note not to describe what we're doing, but in
> hopes of hearing of fresh approaches to cataloguing this vexing class
> of material.>>
Just an idea and an explanation.
Best of luck to you,
Allison Rich
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Allison L. Rich
Special Collections Cataloguer
richac@bc.edu
Burns Library
Boston College
http://www2.bc.edu/~richac/index.htm