Local History Interest Group, Friday, December 11, 2015

Attendees

Inventory progress

• Hoffman Essays - Wayne libraries only.
• Multiple copies
• Catalog records for original editions vs. reprints

Cataloged materials

Non-cataloged materials

• Strategies
• Categories of collections?
  • Clipping files
  • …
• How much information is enough information?
• To catalog or not?

• How to handle library history? Is it worth cataloging? Cataloging Board minutes?
• Multiple types of materials, such as scrapbooks, maps, yearbooks, census records, phone books, burial records, photos, oral histories, materials on cassette and VHS, church cookbooks, etc.

Digitizing microfilm

• Clyde, Williamson have used this service

• Lyons, Livonia, Clyde, Newark…

Newspaper records in the catalog

• The Newark Courier
• The courier-gazette
• Newark courier-gazette, the Marion enterprise, Clifton Springs press
• The Sunday spectator
• The Geneva expositor - 522808
• The Geneva gazette and mercantile advertiser - 522805
• Geneva advertiser - 522803
• Geneva advertiser-gazette - 522801
• Geneva gazette - 522807
• Geneva palladium - 522806
• Finger Lakes Times - 392745, 522800
• Lake shore news
• Clifton Springs review
• Phelps citizen
• Livingston County news (current, Livonia)
• Livingston County news (Dansville)
• Arcade Herald - 392547, 157549 (current)
• Naples Record (current) - 392934
• Marion enterprise
• Daily messenger - 392707
• Owenews
• Dansville chronicle
• New-York gazetteer
• Honeoye herald
• Dansville breeze
• Genesee country express
• Red Creek herald
• (Batavia) The daily news - 392708

Other?

Next steps

• Complete newspaper inventories in ALL FORMATS (print - bound and loose, microfilm) by March 11 (our next meeting)
• For non-cataloged titles provide a list of

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