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Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
This blog describes the successful space management system used by the Library of Congress for collections stored offsite, known as planograph.
Posted in: Collections Management, Collections Storage, Offsite Storage
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
This blog will highlight some of the “spooky” secrets behind the history and construction of pop-up books just in time for Halloween.
Posted in: Collections Management, Halloween, Internships, Miniatures
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
The Library of Congress struggles with storage space like any other institution. This blog will highlight the Preservation Directorate’s efforts to create an integrated approach to collection needs assessment and space management for its vast collection.
Posted in: Collections Management, Collections Storage
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
This blog details how investigating and correcting bibliographic problems is a key activity in collections management and preservation.
Posted in: Collections Management
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
Findings of our summer intern researching miniature books in languages other than English
Posted in: Collections Management, Internships, Miniatures
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
This blogs describes the life cycle of requests at the Library of Congress and the multiple systems and cross-divisional cooperation to get an item into the hands of a patron.
Posted in: Collections Management, Preservation
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
This blog continues to detail the actions to process and make accessible items from the Carvalho Monteiro Collection purchased without a list of titles and processed without provenance and the impact for researchers worldwide.
Posted in: Collections Care, Collections Management, Preservation
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
This blog takes the reader back in time to learn the details of a large acquisition back in 1929 without a list of titles and the quest to find the 30,000 books among millions of items in the General Collection. Part 2 will follow.
Posted in: Collections Care, Collections Management, Preservation
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
This blog describes the collaborative actions taken to move thousands of card catalog drawers to a final destination and how the Collections Management Division (CMD) creatively overcame some challenges during this project.
Posted in: Collections Management, Preservation