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Managing and cataloguing ephemera collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Stephen Lowther
Stephen Lowther*
Affiliation:
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK
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Email: s.lowther@wellcome.ac.uk
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Abstract

What is ephemera? How do we catalogue it? Every library’s ephemera collection differs greatly from others in its content and cataloguing needs. Does one dictate the other? Is there a right way and a wrong way? Or just a way that is right for the library and material in hand? A look at how these things were approached at the Wellcome Library gives an example of how a successfully ordered collection can be created out of the initial chaos with just a little forethought and a lot of hard work.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 31 , Special Issue 4: Ephemera as a research resource: special issue , 2006 , pp. 9 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2006

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