[Genealib] Cataloging Genealogy Materials

[Kathy Rippel]

This is somewhat belated...

One source about using analytics in genealogy and local history is at:
http://www.kslib.info/ref/misc/analytics.html
I believe Bill created this for a session he gave at the Kansas 
Tri-Conference a number of years ago.

Kathy


At 08:13 PM 10/12/2006, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I was recently hired to manage the Everton Genealogy Collection which
>is now at the Logan City Public Library in Logan, Utah. As many of you
>probably know the collection of over 80,000 local history and genealogy
>materials was donated to the Logan library about two years ago, and it
>finally opened to the public two days ago! We're so excited to make this
>really great collection available to the public! In some respects it's
>one-of-a-kind.
>
>The collection came in a total disarray, and it's been a major project
>even just to get to this point. The items are in a rough Dewey Decimal
>order, and we have a title-author database to search the collection. It
>is available, incidentally, at http://library.loganutah.org/genealogy/
>
>I am currently half way finished with my MLS degree and some aspects of
>the job I've found very daunting (I'm the only employee working on the
>collection). I've decided to make some of my assignments directly
>related to the collection and to genealogy librarianship. Currently I'm
>collecting information on cataloging genealogy materials not only with
>the idea of properly cataloging the collection sometime in the future
>but also to fill an assignment.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas that they'd like to share? I'm particularly
>interested in some of the challenges that genealogy poses in cataloging
>and how they're overcome. I'd also love to know about any genealogy
>specific resources for cataloging.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Jason E. Cornelius-Associate Librarian
>Everton Genealogy Collection
>Logan Public Library
>Logan, Utah 84321
>
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Kathy Rippel
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ILL/Ref/Rural Serv/Tech Serv,
Central Kansas Library System
1409 Williams
Great Bend, KS 67530

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