The King scrapbooks have been cursorily inventoried.
The images have never been cataloged. The problem of inventory and cataloging
is compounded by a number of factors:
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Not all of the items require individual cataloging, but all of the prints
should be inventoried.
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The Library does not have an adequate art reference collection to create
cataloging records for most of the items to be cataloged.
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Many of the prints have been trimmed, and information essential to their
cataloging has been lost.
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Some of the prints and drawings are mounted in such a way as to obscure
the reverse side. The back of an old print sometimes offers valuable information
in cataloging.
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Most but, unfortunately, not all of the prints have been mounted and bound
in proper sequence. Some prints in a series, however, are quite distant
from others, and in some instances prints have come loose from their mount
and are loosely inserted where they clearly did not originally belong.
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Cataloging requires training in art history, the history of graphic arts,
graphic media, and paper conservation.
The following section outlines some of the process
in inventory and cataloging.
The print below will serve as an example: |
