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- Houghton Library is a depository for Marguerite Yourcenar publications and translations. They are gifted to Houghton by Éditions Gallimard.
- All deposits are sent to HD in paige boxes to HD. 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 and John Updike, New Directions, 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 in their holdings 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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|e current accession number.
|5 hou
561 1_ |a Marguerite Yourcenar Archive, received from Éditions Gallimard, (year). |5 hou
563 |a As issued, in printed illustrated paper covers; in group box with other Marguerite Yourcenar titles. Or if a hardcover, for example: |a As issued, in dark blue cloth over boards, with printed and illustrated blue dust jacket; in group box with other Marguerite Yourcenar titles.
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862 0_ |b HOU |c HD |h Houghton Call Number
H08 |a c |b t
Classification
As of November 2012, the classification of Yourcenar deposits has changed to reflect a process similar to that of classifying John Updike deposits. (For step-by-step instructions, see the wiki entry for John Updike Deposits). The prefix and cutter for Yourcenar have already been established as FC9.Y8850. Every work by Yourcenar has also been given its own cutter–the first letter of the title followed by a number. Designated cutter numbers for the individual titles are listed below.
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FC9.Y8850A3. : Archives du Nord (1977) [v.2 of Le labyrinth labyrinthe du monde]
FC9.Y8850C7. : Le changeur d’or [short story; possibly only published in a Parisian journal]
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FC9.Y8850Q1. : Quoi? L'Éternité (1988) [v.3 of Le labyrinth labyrinthe du monde]
FC9.Y8850S1. : Les songes et les sorts (1938)
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FC9.Y8850S3. : Souvenirs pieux (1974) [v.1 of Le labyrinth labyrinthe du monde]
FC9.Y8850T1. : Le temps, ce grand sculpteur (1984)
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