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LIS698
      Dr. Giannini
Practicum Presentation
      Spring 2012
     Barbara Bieck
- Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University
- Special Collections Intern
- I complete the majority of my work in the Rare Book Room.
-   The second largest law library in the U.S. with over 1,000,000 volumes
    and subscriptions to more than 7,450 journals and other serials.
-   Special Collections maintains over 40,000 rare books, and over 1,500
    linear feet of archived papers.
-   Over 35 individual collections in the Rare Book Room.
      - Range from incunables to Nuremberg Trial papers,
       and from Medieval French folios to Columbiana,
       such as Theses.
- Survey Medieval Year Books Collection
- Measure for book boxes
- Create Price Report
- Evaluate catalog records
- Evaluate current classification scheme
- Create new classification scheme
- Inventory collection and update catalog records with new call
  number, necessary notes, and item records.
- Create finding aid
- Law reports of medieval England
- Served to instruct persons in the legal profession of the general
    principles of law, pleading, and practice.
-   Originally recorded in manuscript form
-   Ca. 1270 - 1535
-   Written in Law French, a combination of Latin and French
-   Columbia’s YB Collection consists of old printed editions, editions
    from the Selden Society and the Ames Foundation, and a
    complete series of court rolls from the Manor of Welborne
    relating to the second year of Edward II’s reign.
-   I spent the longest portion of my time evaluating
    our Hicks classification scheme for the Year
    Books.
-   Shelf organization was poor, and it took quite a
    lot of research to uncover the organization of the
    schema.
-   Examples of Call Numbers:
    Y             Y              Y
    B 14         C 1-39 a        J-L
-   Not only were the Year Books poorly arranged,
    but also several catalog records had numerous
    errors relating to mistyped call numbers, missing
    descriptions, and incorrect references to
    multiple titles bound within.
-   Worked with cataloger to correct the records,
    and to establish protocol for when I update
    records during inventory.
-   Began with my classification project. I was asked to evaluate the Hicks
    classification scheme. It was odd and difficult to to understand unless you
    were familiar with year books. My supervisor tasked me to research and
    compare the classification systems used by other influential law libraries.
    If I did not find one main schema used for many year books collections,
    then I was required to create a new classification scheme for the
    Columbia collection.

-   It soon became clear that classification is a very large challenge in closed
    stack areas. I looked at over 17 Year Books collections in various libraries,
    and only four libraries used a similar classification.
- Isolated collections
    - lack of finding aid, unique classification schema, little exposure
   to academics
- Reclassification
    - updating outdated call numbers
- Digital Divide
    - Special collections expected to participate in digitization projects
   in order to improve access to collections
- Need to inventory
    - Need staff to inventory collections and assess bib records
- In the case of the Year Books collection, the Library Director
  decided to simplify the schema and use Library of Congress call
  numbers.
- Many special collections, when they do find time to reclassify
  collections, tend to use Library of Congress.
- Finding aids can provide access to scholars, if there is staff to
  create them.
- Difficult to provide solutions due to the nature of small special
  collections: small staff cannot meet demands made by digitization
  projects, reclassification projects, etc.
Hicks, Frederick C. Materials and Methods of Legal Research with Bibliographical
   Manual, Rochester, NY: Lawyers Co-operative publishing company, 1942. Print.

Russell, Beth M. “Description and Access in Rare Books Cataloging: A Historical
  Survey,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 35:3-4, 491-523, 2003. Web.
  Accessed 26 Mar. 2012. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J104v35n03_10>.

Seipp, David J. “Legal History: The Year Books, An Index and Paraphrase of Printed
   Year Book Reports, 1268-1535,” Boston University School of Law, 2010. Web.
   Accessed 15 Apr. 2012. <http://www.bu.edu/law/seipp/>.

Steele, Thomas D. and Jody Bales Foote. “Reclassification in Academic Research
   Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-Book World?,” Cataloging & Classification
   Quarterly, 29:1, 14-32, 2011. Web. Accessed 25 Mar. 2012.
   <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2011.532406>.

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LIS698 Practicum Presentation Bieck

  • 1. LIS698 Dr. Giannini Practicum Presentation Spring 2012 Barbara Bieck
  • 2. - Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University - Special Collections Intern - I complete the majority of my work in the Rare Book Room.
  • 3. - The second largest law library in the U.S. with over 1,000,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 7,450 journals and other serials. - Special Collections maintains over 40,000 rare books, and over 1,500 linear feet of archived papers. - Over 35 individual collections in the Rare Book Room. - Range from incunables to Nuremberg Trial papers, and from Medieval French folios to Columbiana, such as Theses.
  • 4. - Survey Medieval Year Books Collection - Measure for book boxes - Create Price Report - Evaluate catalog records - Evaluate current classification scheme - Create new classification scheme - Inventory collection and update catalog records with new call number, necessary notes, and item records. - Create finding aid
  • 5. - Law reports of medieval England - Served to instruct persons in the legal profession of the general principles of law, pleading, and practice. - Originally recorded in manuscript form - Ca. 1270 - 1535 - Written in Law French, a combination of Latin and French - Columbia’s YB Collection consists of old printed editions, editions from the Selden Society and the Ames Foundation, and a complete series of court rolls from the Manor of Welborne relating to the second year of Edward II’s reign.
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  • 8. - I spent the longest portion of my time evaluating our Hicks classification scheme for the Year Books. - Shelf organization was poor, and it took quite a lot of research to uncover the organization of the schema. - Examples of Call Numbers: Y Y Y B 14 C 1-39 a J-L - Not only were the Year Books poorly arranged, but also several catalog records had numerous errors relating to mistyped call numbers, missing descriptions, and incorrect references to multiple titles bound within. - Worked with cataloger to correct the records, and to establish protocol for when I update records during inventory.
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  • 10. - Began with my classification project. I was asked to evaluate the Hicks classification scheme. It was odd and difficult to to understand unless you were familiar with year books. My supervisor tasked me to research and compare the classification systems used by other influential law libraries. If I did not find one main schema used for many year books collections, then I was required to create a new classification scheme for the Columbia collection. - It soon became clear that classification is a very large challenge in closed stack areas. I looked at over 17 Year Books collections in various libraries, and only four libraries used a similar classification.
  • 11. - Isolated collections - lack of finding aid, unique classification schema, little exposure to academics - Reclassification - updating outdated call numbers - Digital Divide - Special collections expected to participate in digitization projects in order to improve access to collections - Need to inventory - Need staff to inventory collections and assess bib records
  • 12. - In the case of the Year Books collection, the Library Director decided to simplify the schema and use Library of Congress call numbers. - Many special collections, when they do find time to reclassify collections, tend to use Library of Congress. - Finding aids can provide access to scholars, if there is staff to create them. - Difficult to provide solutions due to the nature of small special collections: small staff cannot meet demands made by digitization projects, reclassification projects, etc.
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