Houghton has never had a survey done of the unprocessed collections. However, over the years we have identified large swathes of material that is a number of collections that were uncataloged or under-cataloged . We have done this in a variety of wayshave been identified:
1. We maintain a There is an old “projects list” on in the Groups drive that is shared drive which was historically used for planning purposes and is added to when we come across material in need. 2. The entire Widener transfer class (24 bays) is known to have in it much that is not in but it is not very useful at this point since it has not been updated for a few years
2. Much of Widener transfers (24 bays?) are known to be absent or barely in HOLLIS
3. There is material in the Typ class that has never been cataloged
4. There is material in the 9 bays of accessions that never got cataloged
5. There is a lot of fall-out from the original 1984 recon project; much was not cataloged at all (we have the sheets and cards to prove it) and we lost huge amounts of important information that was on our from the cards (currently about 350 drawers) when when inferior records were brought in
64. Ephemeral and unique material was never cataloged (for example, many pamphlets, broadsides and prints and much of the Theatre printed ephemera)
7. Ward
8Ephemera (broadsides and many pamphlets)
5. Ward Collection
6. Theatre was not a part of the recon and project so a lot of the printed monographs and serials are may not be in HOLLIS