My goal is to gain experience with cataloging tools and platforms, even if the work is mostly cataloging from a template. The intellectual questions I am interested in have to do with understanding the relationship between information and its forms. The collection I will be cataloging is not bibliographic but mixed media material organized in vertical files. The kind of information embodied by these unique, ephemeral items is somehow different in nature than the kind of information conveyed by books, journals, and text-dominated publications. How, then, does the cataloger best represent the information potential of these items? In reality, I will not have the option of individually cataloging or digitizing items. But my final analysis will be formulated as a thought experiment regarding best practices in describing ephemera.
position title: M-LEAD cataloging intern
course: LIS-698, Practicum/Seminar
professor: Dr. Tula Giannini, Dean of Pratt SILS
site supervisor: Beth Kushner, cataloger/assistant librarian
site location: Brooklyn Museum (Libraries and Archives), 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY
Image: "Christopher Dresser, The art of decorative design, 1862. Knowledge is Power."
Author: Dresser, Christopher.
Description: xi, 241 p., 1 L. : ill., 28 plates (part col.) ; 25 cm.
Imprint: London : Day and son, 1862.
Brooklyn Museum Libraries, Special Collections
No. NK1560 D81a
No. NK1560 D81a
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