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A few years ago the Amon Carter Museum library wrestled with the slippery issue of what to do with our collection of library book catalogs. At the time, I sent around an email to the curatorial staff asking for their opinions regarding how we should treat them. By and large, the feeling was that they were worth keeping for reasons being cited in the current discussion thread on ARLIS-L (mainly historiographical value and concern about how much of the material is available online). We chose to keep them since our space allowed it. Here's the edited text of my original message to our curatorial staff, along with an inventory of the book catalogs we have in the library collection with their online counterparts listed. ----------------------------------- The library has a collection of book catalogs, i.e. book versions of card catalogs, covering various special collections in both the U.S. and Canada. These catalogs were produced primarily by G.K. Hall in the 60s and 70s. We have debated off and on in the past about their usefulness, but have yet to make a decision about keeping them. I can count on one hand the times I have seen researchers use them, but perhaps that is because they are not widely known. Some have been cataloged in our online catalog, but the lion's share have not. In many cases, they have been superceded by the institutions' online catalogs. In fact, all of the institutions represented in the collection have online catalogs in one form or another, but we have not made any determination about how much of the material has made it into electronic form. I guess my feeling is that we keep them, since my recent sweep informed me that there's lots of pertinent information therein. They do represent a commitment of space, as they are oversized volumes. Last summer [name snipped] compiled a listing of libraries represented in the collection and supplemented that information with URLs of online catalogs. I have dusted off that document and added specific titles and volume counts in the hopes it will help inform a decision. Let me know what you think. American Antiquarian Society Library Dictionary Catalog of American Books, 17th-19th Centuries (20 v.) http://www.americanantiquarian.org/mark.htm American Geographical Society Index to Maps in Books and Periodicals (10 v. with 1 v. of suppl.) Research Catalogue (15 v. with 7 v. of suppl.) http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/index.html http://leardo.lib.uwm.edu/intro.html Art Institute of Chicago Index to Art Periodicals (11 v.) http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/catalog.html Boston Athenaeum Library [Catalog] (5 v.) http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/webvoy.htm British Columbia Archives and Records Service (Provincial Archives of BC) Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia (8 v.) http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/library/general/library.htm Denver Public Library Catalog of the Western History Department (7 v. with 1 v. of suppl.) http://www.denver.lib.co.us http://set.coalliance.org Glenbow-Alberta Institute Library Catalogue of the Glenbow Historical Library (4 v.) http://www.glenbow.org/lasearch/wosearmenu.htm http://www.glenbow.org/lasearch/woglencat.htm Harvard University, Fine Arts Library (The Fogg Art Museum) [Catalog] (15 v. with 3 v. of suppl.) http://hplus.harvard.edu/hollischoices.html Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division [Catalog] (5 v. with 2 v. of suppl.) http://catalog.loc.gov Mariners Museum Dictionary Catalog of the Library (9 v.) http://www.mariner.org/libsearch.htm Metropolitan Museum of Art [Catalog] (25 v. with 6 v. of suppl.) http://metmuseum.org/htmlfile/watson/watson-l.htm Museum of Modern Art Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art (14 v.) http://library.moma.org National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada (8 v.) http://bibcat.gallery.ca/screens/opacmenu.html New York Public Library, Art and Architecture Division [Catalog] (30 v.) New York Public Library Dictionary Catalog of the Prints Division (5 v.) New York Public Library History of the Americas (28 v. with 9 v. of suppl.) http://catnyp.nypl.org Newberry Library Edward E. Ayer Collection of Americana and American Indians (16 v. with 7 v. of suppl.) http://www.newberry.org/vtls/english.vtls.html Union List of Serials (5 v.) United States Department of the Interior Library (American Indian) Biographical and Historical Index of American Indians and Persons Involved in Indian Affairs (8 v.) http://library.doi.gov/webcathelp.html University of California, Berkeley (Bancroft Library) [Catalog] (23 v. with 17 v. of suppl.) http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu http://www.sunsite2.berkeley.edu:8000 (Berkeley Libraries only) University of Illinois Library The Mereness Calendar, Federal Documents on the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1780-1890 (13 v.) http://uic.edu/depts/lib/sysdocs/uiccat University of Michigan Author/Title Catalog of Americana , 1493-1860, in the William L. Clements Library (7 v.) http://www.mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu University of Texas Libraries Catalog of the Texas Collection in the Barker Texas History Center (14 v.) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/lib/utnetcat http://dpweb1.dp.utexas.edu/lib/utnetcat University of Washington Libraries The Dictionary Catalog of the Pacific Northwest Collection (6 v.) http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search Winterthur Museum Library General Catalog and Rare Book Catalog (9 v.) http://www.winterthur.org/index-library.html Yale University Catalog of the Yale Collection of Western Americana (4 v.) http://webpac.library.yale.edu -------------------------------------------- Samuel Duncan Associate Librarian/Cataloguer Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 76107-2695 817.989.5044 817.989.5079 fax http://www.cartermuseum.org All opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employer. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]