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MS Hyde 51 wasn't oversized but is shelved in a display case in the Hyde room. To allow it's attractive spine to be viewed, it was put into a book shoe rather than a box. These can be made simply in-house with 2 sheets of slightly thick folder stock folded around the volume in both directions, and then held together with double-sided tape. These can also be used for single items or volumes from a collection that need protection but have to be shelved quickly, such as during Container Management, when re-housing an oversized phonograph album from an older collection. Using the folder stock rather than archival corrugated board also allows it to fit back on its tightly filled shelve.
BOXED VOLUME COLLECTIONS
Wide (7") flip-top document box can sometimes accommodate both volumes and archival folders. MS Thr 1816 (prompt books) or any small volume collections of fairly uniform size can fit nicely sideways in a regular or wide document box. This example has sturdy inner folders with tabs, made from thin archival corrugated board (same thickness as the spacers that are used with this type of box). These were made in-house by the end processor. There was room in this box for a legal sized folder along the right wall of the box and a corrugated spacer on the left. The inner enclosure in the front (also custom made by end processor) houses more fragile booklets. MS Thr 473 (prompt books) was mostly very thin, fragile pamphlet-like items, many of which fit into custom cut (by end processor using guillotine) archival file folders rather than corrugated board folders. There is no picture. These are at HD.
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MS Typ 1343, a different collection of copper plates and proofs associated with William Blake to facilitate teaching. The end processor divided them into sizes, to fit in 3 cmi boxes that each held only a few plates, so that weight wouldn't be an issue. As it would have if all the plates were housed in a single box. Each box was the same size (the size of the prefabs) so they could be stacked on top of each other so as not to take up space on the shelf.
POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOWS
PRE-FAB : fitted out (MS Russ 131)
APPENDIX
Documents mentioned in this manual
MICROSOFT WORD
AEON instructions
Box label instructions
Box label template in Word
Labeling large collections
Labeling single items using WORD (sample) - not recommended for large collections.
Manuscript Collection & Single Item Tracking form (sample filled out form).
POWERPOINT & ADOBE SLIDE SHOWS
Box labeling presentation
Paige box storage
Photosleeve presentation
Supplies slide show