Overview
- Houghton Library is
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- a depository
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- for
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- John Updike publications and translations. They are gifted to Houghton by the Updike Literary Trust.
- All
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- 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
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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 Alma is selected for the paige box barcode. All other items receive 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 CMI casegroup 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 Number
H08 |a c |b t
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Sample Routing Slip for the Box
Classification
The procedure for assigning a call number to Updike deposits has changed over time. Some titles have been given LC call numbers; some translations have not been assigned an Updike title numbernumbers. 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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AC95.Up174C7.1979c The Coup (London : Deutsch, 1979, c1978)
If a work has been translated, first search in Hollis for the English title to ascertain the identifying number. Then consult the Houghton Classification Manual for the correct translation codes. (These are located on page 6 of the document.) A French translation of Seek My Face would be classified as follows:
AC95.Up174S9.Eh2012k ('E' indicates this is a translation, 'h' indicates the translation is French. The ending 'k' is the first initial of the translator's last name.)