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Greetings from Maine on this beautiful sunny autumn afternoon. THANK YOU to all the colleagues who offered practical advice for enhancing bibliographic records to maximize local discovery of info pertaining to their museum holdings. Most, if not all, respondents were from museum libraries. I did not receive any responses from university or college institutions that were not specialized art schools. Knowing that cataloging departments are frequently understaffed, I wonder still whether we in the academic library world can offer our museums value by collaborating and engaging in this practice to support research and education on our institutional museum artworks. It is something I've been seriously thinking about as I work both docents and students in my information literacy classes that increasingly focus on museum object centered research. Margaret D. Ericson|Arts Librarian and Copyright Liaison|Bixler Art and Music Library|Colby College Libraries|5662 Mayflower Hill|Waterville, Maine 04901| <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] (207) 859-5662 From: Margaret Ericson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 4:39 PM To: [log in to unmask] Cc: 'Margaret Ericson' <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Enhancing Bibliographic book records to maximize local discovery of info pertaining to museum holdings Hello colleagues. I'm asking a renegade question. I'm writing to those academic libraries with significant institutional museum collections. I'm writing from the perspective of making book holdings pertaining to museum holdings more discoverable with the addition of local notes or added entries etc. While we have Google Books to enable us to delve into the full text of academic books to discover content undiscoverable through our typical ILS, I wonder if any libraries out there add local notes to their ILS to make more discoverable scholarly content found in books pertaining to museum holdings. For example, in a book called Taxing Visions, there is a lengthy discussion of a painting in one's museum. However the cataloging metadata doesn't reflect this. Does anyone out attempt to add local notes to their catalog record to identify value added content for museum works not discoverable through our library systems. I know it's a long shot. Margaret D. Ericson|Arts Librarian and Copyright Liaison|Bixler Art and Music Library|Colby College Libraries|5662 Mayflower Hill|Waterville, Maine 04901| [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (207) 859-5662 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~