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Hello, I'd like to ask other museum librarians about policies concerning auction catalogs. I recently had some catalogs returned to our library by a curator and noticed that the catalog was heavily annotated. I'm sure this has been done before but this is the first time I am noticing it. If it was a book, I would already know my answer, no writing in library books! But since it is an auction catalog used for acquisition research (and very likely not to be used by anyone other than a specific curator) I realize I'm not sure if it's worth requesting that no writing happen in library material. Do you allow curators to annotate auction catalogs in the library collection? Thanks for any thoughts, Alison Alison L. Huftalen, MA, MLS Head Librarian Art Reference Library Toledo Museum of Art [log in to unmask] 419.254.5771 x7386 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~