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- Houghton Library is a depository for John Updike publications and translations. They are gifted to Houghton by the Updike Literary Trust.
- All deposits are sent to HD in paige boxes. The Bibliographic Assistant receives each item, assigns an accession number, catalogs it, and sends it to end-processing 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 Alma is selected for the paige box barcode. All other items receive H77 977 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.
- As with serials, New Directions, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gore Vidal, and Houghton Publications Archive group boxes, these items do not need Technical Services Aeon slips, either individually or for the box. They remain in the Acquisitions & End-Processing Section until delivery to HD. Individual items do not receive the HD location designation until after the paige box has been filled, and is ready to be sent to the Depository.
Sample Holdings Record
541 0_ |c Gift;
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563 |a As issued, in printed illustrated paper covers; in group box with other John Updike titles. Or for hardcover: Bound in publisher’s dark blue cloth over boards, with printed purple and gray dust jacket; in group box with other John Updike titles |5 hou
862 0852 8_ |b HOU |c HD |h Houghton Call NumberH08 |a c |b t
Sample Routing Slip for the Box
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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.
AC95.Up174S9.2012 can be broken down as follows:
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