** THIS PAGE NEEDS TO BE UPDATED DUE TO SOME MATERIALS BEING RELOCATED DURING RENOVATION **
Shelflists:
While all card shelf lists for printed material were closed as of January 2006 (and many more ceased being added to much earlier), because of the vagaries of time and recon, many of them remain useful in cataloging and retrieval. These files include:
File | Contents | Location |
|---|---|---|
Houghton shelflist | All of the classes found in the Guide to the Houghton Classification Schemes |
Pusey P2N, Houghton Keats Room (starting *SCA8.100.B875 v.25) |
Keats shelflist | Shelflist of the Keats Collection | The Associate Librarian for Technical Services office |
Theatre shelflist | Great deal not in HOLLIS
| Theatre Reading Room |
Changed Number shelflist | Two sequences – Widener call numbers changed to Houghton call numbers and Houghton call numbers that have been changed |
Pusey P2N |
Widener shelflist (aka Widener "Transfer" shelflist) | Books now residing in Houghton under their old Widener numbers |
Houghton Sub-Basement across from workstation |
Widener Old Catalog (OC) | Entire contents of the old Widener card catalog | Fiche near workstation on SB |
Houghton card catalog (aka the "Bridge" catalog) | Alphabetic sequence only; filing ceased ca. 1987 | Fiche in RR |
Newspaper card file (aka Colonial newspapers) | Uncataloged newspapers, by date and location ("Houghton Newspapers" card catalog - Lamont) |
Card boxes in Houghton RR on shelves |
"Exlibris" file | Containing sequences of bookplates and dedicatees as well (filing ceased ca. 1992?) | Sub-Basement (electronic copy in OASIS: A-D, E-K, L-Q, R-Z) Houghton Sub-Basement |
Printers, printing specimens | Houghton Sub-Basement | |
Philip Hofer's reference collection rd catalog | Houghton Hofer Inner Office | |
Imprint files (extensive) | Chronological and geographical | Lamont (Curatorial files area) |
STC imprint file | Lamont (Curatorial files area) | |
Theatre files | Lamont | |
First lines | Lamont (Curatorial files area) | |
Broadsides (Cataloged) | Lamont (Curatorial files area) | |
Gay | John Gay Collection (from Widener) |
Pusey P2N, Lamont (Curatorial files area) |
"Bibl points" file | Of interesting bibliographic features, also including bookbindings |
Pusey P1N across from communal printer |
Hofer card catalog | Contains material of interest to the Graphic Arts collection, not only Typ |
Houghton Hofer Inner Office |
In addition, while not strictly card shelflists, the following are useful guides focused on the enumeration of our collections:
- Bound accession books
From 1941 (the beginning of Houghton) till 2001. The entire sequence has been digitized, and the books are now stored at HD.
- Amory
In 1983 Hugh Amory produced Printed Books and Ephemera: A Guide to the Catalogues, Finding Lists, and Special Files with a List of Uncataloged Collections (link to HOLLIS record). While now dated, it is a very thorough list and valuable for being the only printed account of some of our collections.
- Annotated bibliographies
Author, STC, Evans, etc. – most housed in RR; some held in Houghton Sub-Basement
- Bound Widener shelflists
There are multiple Widener bound shelf lists of specific collections kept in SB near the Aeon workstation. As some of the titles in them have been reclassed, they can be helpful in tracking down old volumes. The most prominent ones are:- Hearn
- William James
- Kipling
- Lincoln
Internal files:
Historically, the department has maintained certain internal documentation relating to the books cataloged. The largest and most active of them are two sequences consisting of material removed from books; items removed are placed in acid-free folders and filed in call number order.
- The Bibliographic File is maintained for all collections except for those in P&GA. It is housed on the
MezzaninePusey P1N and also contains Conservation Treatment reports from Weissman - The Printing and Graphic Arts Department's Curatorial File contains the same for Typ books. It is located in the Hofer Inner Office on B level in the stacks.
Additionally, there is a filing cabinet of Catalog Department files from 1942-1980 in Lamont.