Occasionally an entire collection of manuscripts or an item/folder within a collection deserve deserves a highly detailed level of cataloging. Traditionally Houghton has titled this “long“long-form cataloging.” In the far-distant past, all manuscript materials at Houghton were described at this level, but this is no longer the case. See the old Houghton “red” accession books for a wide variety of this early detailed HCL and Houghton cataloging.
...