Dear
Colleagues:
At a staff meeting today our
library director distributed the recently published “Guidelines for the
security of rare books, manuscripts and other special collections” issued by
ACRL’s RBMS. Appendix one provides guidelines for marking manuscripts
and rare books, while Section VII categorically states that materials
themselves should be identified by a unique mark. We are discussing
using a stamp with our OCLC symbol and permanent ink to discreetly mark our
manuscripts. I don’t know how I feel about this. The library
director’s explanation was that since these manuscripts are going to be
permanently retained by the institution, reducing the market value by stamping
an item should not be of any concern.
Are other institutions marking
manuscripts with a permanent stamp? What were the pros and cons of doing
so?
What a great question for a
Friday!
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Barbara
Austen Manuscript Archivist /
Cataloger The (860) 236-5621, ext.
251 Fax: (860)
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