In March our colleagues in Technical Services and Cataloging added 413 items to the Center for Restoration Studies, Rare Books, and Taylor Hymnals collections. Some are new to us; in other cases these new additions gave us a second copy. Several items are boxes of unbound periodical issues that were previously uncataloged. Some are tracts and others are A/V in various formats (mostly cassette tape and CD’s and a few VHS). Further, the work performed on some items reflects original cataloging, which is a tremendous contribution to knowledge about information resources from and about the Stone-Campbell Movement.
The Library in Daisy Hall, with a Jesse Sewell reading a book at a table and shelves of books around him.
Our goal is to build a comprehensive research-level collection of print materials by, for, and about the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. But beyond assembly and preservation, a collection should be discoverable by those who need the information. Collecting and preserving is only part of our task; those objects must be described and made available. Thanks to the close and careful work of our colleagues upstairs, who describe our holdings, these materials are now discoverable. By discoverable I mean a patron can utilize our online catalog (such as by searching by author, or title, or subject) to find these materials.
413 new items…cataloged, shelved, and ready for research:
