Overview
- Houghton Library is a depository for John Updike publications and translations. They are gifted to Houghton by the Updike Literary Trust.
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- deposits are sent to in paige boxes to HD. The Bibliographic Assistant receives each item, assigns an accession number, catalogs it, and sends it to end-processing
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- for ownership labels and plates only, with instructions to return it to the Bibliographic Assistant. Items are stored in a paige box until it is full. One item record in Aleph is selected for the paige box barcode. All other items receive H77 fields in their holdings, linking back to the ‘barcoded’ item record. If a patron requests any one of the titles, the entire box will be recalled from HD.
Sample Holdings Record
541 0_ |c Gift;
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H08 |a c |b t
Classification
The procedure for assigning a call number to Updike deposits has changed over time. Some titles have LC call numbers; some translations have not been assigned Updike title numbers. The current practice is to assign a Houghton call number to the item in hand. The prefix and cutter for John Updike have already been established as AC95.Up174. Every work by Updike has also been given its own cutter–the first letter of the title followed by a number. For example, Seek My Face has been assigned "S9". To ascertain the specific designation of your work in hand, go to Hollis Classic and search by title.
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