A BEAT project to add descriptive annotations to the catalog record for many of the Library's Micoroform collections is underway.

LC reference staff have created a web-based annotated bibliography, A Guide to the Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, describing many of the the Library's micorform collections. The Guide, based on previous iterations of text-based bibliographies,adds many more collections received from 1996 through the present, as well as several collections that were previously undiscovered. It lists its entries alphabetically by collection, and each entry has an annotation describing the collection as well as information about indivual guides to each of the collections themselves. However, the bibliographic records for these collections do not carry the same extremely descriptive data as is found in the online Guide.

Accordingly, this project will add the text of all the annotations to the underlying LC catalog record for those collections that have been assigned a Library of Congress Catalog Card Number (the LCCN). This will result in the record carrying a much fuller description of the collection identified in the catalog record, and should be very useful in helping researchers who find the entry assess and utilize that collection.
This page updated on May 27, 2004

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