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) 236-2664 |
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