Today I met the staff at the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum [MCLM] and went on a brief tour of the facilities. After the tour concluded I began cataloging rare books.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif The first step of the cataloging prochttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifess is to pull a Library of Congress call number from the Library on Congress Online Catalog. The process can take much longer than realized for rare books, some of which are so obscure the LOC has to record of them.
If the book has no record in the LOC the next step is to search World Cat for a possible call number. To verify a call number applies to the book the number of pages and the size of the book is compared to the record.
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