We catalog auction catalogues that have a special significance for research here. For example we catalog auctions on Rookwood Pottery from Treadway and Cincinnati Art Galleries under the number for Rookwood in NK. We do not catalog auction catalogues from Sotheby's, Christie's, etc. unless they have some special significance and will be used frequently.
Mona L. Chapin
Head Librarian
Cincinnati Art Museum/Art Academy of Cincinnati
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202-1557
Tel: 513-639-2976
Fax: 513-721-0129
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From: Michele Turner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:30 PM
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] auction catalogs
This is a question about auction catalogs and cataloging. How common is it
for museum libraries to actually catalog certain individual auction catalogs
which might be pertinent to the Museum's collection? Our library keeps
auction catalogs in order by auction house, and then by date. There is no
indexing by subject, etc.
So, for those librarians who also arrange their auction catalogs this way,
do you actually pull those certain catalogs out and catalog them, if you
feel it necessary? Or is there another recommended way?
Thanks for any help on this subject.
Michele Turner
Librarian
Currier Museum of Art
201 Myrtle Way
Manchester, NH 03104
(603) 669-6144 ext. 127
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www.currier.org
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