Print also progresses

One benefit of being out to hear Dr. Hargraves at our Summer Colloquy has been the opportunity (in the interstices) to unpack boxes of books to arrange on the inviting shelfspace provided in the new Carroll Digs. So the number of items whose physical location I can vouch for gained slightly, up 66 from 135 to 202 as of June. The revised list is at a special page here on my wiki for the curious....

Some print progress

The MARC records of our core gift of print books, the Newport Collection, have been examined with SACS in mind. I'm pleased to report that the 4,309 items cataloged (approximately 27% of our total print collection) are clearly relevant to our collection needs, with 4,060 items belonging to the "Humanities and General Works" area. How gratifying to be able to say with precision just how fitting this gift is to Carroll.

1.5K combined reviews

The next mark of 1,000 "reviewed" in BHCTILibrary proper was reached today; when added to the 500 in BHCTILibraryToo, that reachs the 1.5K mark in the combined collections. As previously noted, the "reviews"consist primarilly of OCLC data and LCCN placements; but the latter is important to SACS, and when coordinated with labeling (our existing 16 BHCTI subject areas and 4 subject "clusters," which all extant entries already enjoy- the LC class is being added to the labels as each are found), I think it gives a good indication why entries fit their subjects- that they are relevant for us. I can't promise I'll keep on the retroactive reviewing of the 2.5K in BHCTILibrary proper without adding more Church Music entries to the 500 in BHCTILibraryToo; but I might. As you may remember, "proper" is now stuffed full; once "too" is filled, I'll be placing another Google Library until all previously located (and subsequently identified) finds are accessable....

A way forward

Nothing new from Google techs yet, but some judicious excisions and extractions confirm for my purpose the 2.5K ceiling of my Google Books BHCTILibrary account. The next 2.5K (to a total of 5K) will be placed in an "Annex" generously provided by Mrs. Day. More on that tomorrow- I am meanwhile hunting more OCLC# and LCCNs for the first 2.5K.