This week I had the opportunity to process a scrapbook. The scrapbook featured letters and notes from Samuel Brown. Mr. Brown was an African American musician from the Los Angeles region. The most interesting item I found was a rejection letter from a Baltimore university that bluntly stated “this [teaching] position will have to go to a white person.”
This week I also cataloged visual art materials. Everything from movie posters to art prints. I find the most important part of cataloging in a database is to remember to add subjects to the items. The subjects are pulled from the LOC authorities and the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus. The AAT comes into use often when dealing with obscure art materials that the LOC has not encountered.
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