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1 year ago Stakeholder Feedback from Minjie Chen for Cotsen:
Why do we need a DPUL collection for all items fully digitized from the holdings of the Cotsen Children’s Library?
We need a portal to all things Cotsen to share with researchers of cultural artifacts for children and youth. Cotsen holdings share the attribute of being intended for or having been used by a child audience for entertainment/education purposes. Aside from their common home library—Cotsen--no other search criteria can exhaustively collocate all titles with this attribute.
Why do we need to keep track of which exact copy has been digitized?
Duplicate copies of the same edition share the same bib record per cataloging rules, but specific copies may carry distinct information that interests researchers. Copies may vary in provenance (former owners), annotations, inscriptions, insertions, bindings. Such information is recorded in note fields in bib records. When digitized, we want to preserve the linkage between notes and copy #, so that users will know exactly which copy they are viewing on the screen.
(I fully anticipate wrinkles in finalizing the technical solution, not helped by the fact that many special collection copies are not barcoded, but differentiated by penciled copy # in the book or on an inserted card.)
More Examples
Child readers studies
Scholarly works like the following use inscriptions and marginalia found in specific copies to reconstruct the history of childhood.
The child reader, 1700-1840 / M.O. Grenby
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9965456503506421
Revolutions at home : the origin of modern childhood and the German middle class / Emily C. Bruce.
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99125387304206421
Derrida’s margins
PUL purchased Derrida’s personal library mainly because researchers are interested in the annotations and inscriptions in them. See--
The Library of Derrida copies with inscriptions, annotations, or insertions [Titles in Blacklight]
CDH project Derrida’s Margins
Female ownership of books
There is also growing interest in women as collectors, such as the Miriam Y. Holden collection. Emma Sarconi has curated a body of special collection titles formerly owned by a female collector, based on provenance evidence she gleaned from specific copies. See an overview in The Her Book Project
Turns out that duplicate copies held in multiple home libraries occur more often than one expects. Here I have gathered cases (slide no. 18-) where copy information is lost in DPUL. Andrea and I did some detective work to correct some of them but not all. Kim brought up a good idea of checking Aeon historical records to verify which copy had been requested for digitization.
Summary
There are many examples in the PUL collections at large of one MMS/ Bib ID having multiple holdings. This practice may become problematic when some holdings are digitized, but not identified as to what holding record it belongs to. There may be copies from the General Collections, Cotsen Childrens Library, and/or Special Collections, for example. The holdings information for the digitized surrogates may be important for a few of reasons, including:
Thoughts
The holdings numbers are unique. utilize them at ingest (maybe kinda like Components (MMSID_HOLDINGSID)? Short term, add holdings numbers to aeon request/list given by SCPS to Roel to populate studio register?
How some are identified using structural metadata/MVW ingest (Eric White reviewed and championed these ingests)
Example: Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies : published according to the true original copies: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9924827643506421
Impact
Please include hard deadlines, if the exhibit is part of an event, the issue is stopping work, etc.
Priority recommendation
Sudden Priority Justification
Required if "asap" or "within the next 3 weeks" is checked. Add "Sudden Priority" and "Maintenance/Research" labels
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