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Hi Janis: This report on print auction catalogs is very interesting and I have nothing to add to your very good summary regarding current print auction catalog practice. However, your queries regarding SCIPIO (Sales Catalog Index Project Input On-line) made me think that an essay written by Jeffrey Weidman back in 2007 for the ARLIS/NA Occasional Paper #16, Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship (p. 105 – 113) might be of interest. It is a very wide-ranging essay, focused on his practice at the Spencer Art Reference Library at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, before his retirement. It includes a brief history of auction sales catalogs and his vehement support of the acquisition and preservation of long runs of print catalogs, as well as descriptions of the full-text auction catalog databases extant in 2007. Pages 110-11 describes SCIPIO’s history and process at the time. Many interesting end notes are included; see especially references to Alex Ross’s (“Catalogue”) and Lee Sorenson’s (“Catalogues of Auction Catalogues”) articles in the 1996 edition of the Dictionary of Art and a 2006 update by Sherman Clarke on the fate of SCIPIO after the merger of RLG and OCLC. Sherman—are you listening?—I’m sure you can update us further. Best wishes, Joan From: ARLIS/NA List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of DesMarais, Janis Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 12:55 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] who is keeping print auction catalogs? Hello List, Two weeks ago I submitted the following query to the list: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello list, On behalf of the Head Librarian at the Worcester Art Museum (WAM), Rebecca Morin, I have volunteered to research information related to collecting print auction catalogs. The WAM has collected and kept decades of Christie's, Parke-Bernet, and Skinner print auction catalogs, like many libraries. I reviewed the listserv archive and see that over the years many academic and museum libraries have removed these items from their collections. At the same time I notice that requests for scans from auction catalogs are just as frequent over the listserv. On June 17, 2013 Susan Ferrer-Vinent offered a great summary to her query about experiences using online "equivalents" of auction catalogs or the information within them http://lsv.arlisna.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ARLIS-L;44b31d7d.1306 I guess my starting question(s) at this point is this: how are we as a profession ensuring that we aren't all getting rid of our print auction catalogs? Do any major academic or museum libraries retain full runs as a matter of mission or do we have a running list of who has what? I see that there is an auction catalogs sig with its own listserv that I am not currently subscribed to. If the membership thinks I should join and prefers that I move this conversation there, please advise. Thank you in advance, Janis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I received replies from nine individuals, thank you! Here are some highlights of the replies: - institutional holdings are not a comprehensive run - kept in off-site storage and can be requested - have kept what has been collected and are in the process of cataloging them - collect/keep catalogs with items related to the museum's collection and enhance their catalog records with this information - some libraries catalog the auction catalogs, some have lists, others have no holdings information - have subscriptions to the print auction catalogs Only one librarian mentioned the SCIPIO auction sales cataloging project https://artlibraries.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch and https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/FirstSearch/FirstSearch_databases/SCIPIO This blog entry from the Getty Research Institute Library provides some additional information for those (like me) who were unfamiliar with SCIPIO https://blogs.getty.edu/library/2017/07/11/scipio-art-and-rare-book-sales-catalogs/ It is unclear however if SCIPIO still exists as a standalone database and whether it's presence in the Art Discovery Group Catalogue provides holdings for all SCIPIO-participating institutions. And I still don't know what SCIPIO actually stands for! I am curious whether those libraries that are cataloging their auction catalogs are providing their holdings information to OCLC and whether this information gets into SCIPIO by default or if that requires an extra step or formalized participation? I will be passing this information on to the librarian at the Worcester Art Museum. I am very grateful for the replies that I received. 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