Microforms
Sometimes it is difficult to locate microforms in HOLLIS. Try searching on the name of the holding library in the Creator field.
Here are some places to check when the Isham item you seek isn't where you thought it would be:
- check ALEPH for potential clues on most recent activity/whereabouts
- search Aeon for potential clues on most recent activity/whereabouts
- search in different locations:
- Isham stacks
- Merritt Room, including PF shelving and PHI shelving
- Tintoretto Room
- Cage
- general collection
- Spalding Room
- Aldrich Room
- HD transfer bins
- pro tip: Isham PF materials are shelved in the Merritt PF range, for space reasons
If the item is available through Get It! services and the patron needs it urgently, change the Isham item's status to Missing; this will allow the patron to proceed with a Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan request.
And here , or on the shelf number of the original item as a keyword.
There is an annotated photocopy of the Grove article "Sources, MS. II.5. Western plainchant, 12th century" in the Keeper's desk (bottom drawer) with pencilled-in annotations of Isham call numbers for those items Isham owns in reproduction.
A large gift of microfilms was presented to Isham by Professor John Milton Ward IV. There is a blog post about these here: http://blogs.harvard.edu/loebmusic/2011/01/05/john-ward%e2%80%99s-treasure-trove-of-microfilms/ The post includes a PDF inventory.
Microfilms sent by Yale for the 2008-2010 Mellon-funded cataloging project are now shelved in rows 4A of the Cage. There is an inventory in SharePoint.
Manuscripts
Here are some ideas for how to discover music manuscripts at Harvard:
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- check OASIS
- have someone at Houghton look in check the Theatre Collection Autograph File
- look it up in Chadwyck-Healya National Inventory of Documentary Sources
- look it up in Barbara Marienholz-Wolfftry ArchivesGrid's Music Manuscripts at Harvard