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Processing Sotheby Catalogs
Decisions made with regard to the receipt and cataloging procedures for Sotheby catalogs at a
meeting held April 3, 1996 and attended by Dennis Bernards, Pat Frade, Carla Kupitz, Howard
Lo, Kari Nelson, Chris Ramsey, and Keith Westover with additional insights provided by
Sharolynn Pyeatt.
- Serials (Dennis Bernards) will receive the items on serial record, no checkin will be required.
- Serials will route the catalogs to Acquisitions (Kari Nelson).
- Acquisitions (Kari) will store the catalogs until the Fine Arts Librarian (Chris Ramsey) is
notified and reviews them for analytics.
- After the review, Kari will tattletape and produce TPFs for those to be analyzed. All
catalogs will then be delivered to the Fine Arts cataloger (Howard Lo).
- The cataloger (Howard) will barcode all catalogs. He will create item records on the
appropriate Sotheby records (by auction location) for all non-analyzed catalogs and will
forward the catalogs to the Lettering Room. Analyzed catalogs will receive a full
MARC record, an analytic call number (based on the appropriate auction location), a barcode and
an item record. These items will then be sent to lettering.
***Prior to the above procedures, the serials cataloger (Pat Frade) will create serial records for
all Sotheby catalogs based on the auction location. The records and call numbers will be a
variation based on the Sotheby New York record.
***Chris Ramsey will review the existing backlog of catalogs in Kari's area for analytics as she
has time.
Date last updated: April 4, 2000