Beat Magazines: Copy Cataloging procedures

BEAT SERIALS [& monographic serials] – Add items/Copy cat. procedures

Mavis Molto – 2013:8/22,9/3,9/20,12/5; 2014:3/26,10/23,11/5,11/17; 2015:3/25,4/2,5/4, 5/5,8/5,12/1; 2016:3/1,10/28, 11/3,11/18,11/22,12/20

Uploaded without edits: 9/22/2021; Table of Contents added later

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Definitions:

(from Wikipedia, 2021) The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generationers in the 1950s. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration.

(from Wikipedia, 2013) Little magazines, often called "small magazines", are literary magazines that publish experimental and non-conformist writings of relatively unknown writers. They are usually noncommercial in their outlook. They are often very irregular in their publication. The earliest significant examples are the transcendentalist publication The Dial (1840–44), edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller in Boston, and The Savoy (1896), edited by Arthur Symons in London, which had a revolt against the Victorian Materialism as its agenda. Little magazines played a significant role for the poets who shaped the avant-garde movements like Modernism and Post-modernism across the world in the twentieth century.

Delete heading if the title is clearly NOT a little magazine. Not all of our Beat magazines in the collection are little magazines, nor are all our little magazines part of the Beat Movement.

Little magazines:

• noncommercial periodical of limited circulation,  

• usually dedicated to publishing experimental literature and art and/or unconventional social ideas and political theories, and  

• almost all titles are in magazine form, but some newspapers and other publications are included. 

INITIAL PROCESSING – by ABR curator.

1. NOTE ON ISSUES: v./no./year; NOTE: location, donors (issues)

2. SEARCH SIERRA & OCLC

3. CONSTANT DATA – Beat Mags 949 – ctrl-L

4. SUBJECTS & CALL NO.

5. IF NEEDED–add 022, 245indic, 260, 300, 310, FreqRegSrtp, 362

6. SPECIAL TITLES

7. EDITORS (always) & PUBLISHERS (optional, changes)

8. NOTES and STATS FIELDs

9. BARCODE – to Mylar cover – back top center

10. ENTER CHANGES, VALIDATE-shiftF5/F1l, PRINT, PROOF

11. PRODUCE/UPDATE-shiftF7,EXPORT(del prevfile)F5,IMPORT

12. EDIT - see Item/Hold/Edit procedure

13. ITEMS - see Item/Hold/Edit procedure

* OVERSIZE: art collection: 36cm+ ABR/beat magazines: 38cm+

14. HOLDINGS – see Item/Hold/Edit procedure

15. LABEL

For Beat Serials, we never want to put the label directly on the issue, instead, put on a paper flag like SCA items, attach to the Mylar envelope, or to SCA folder.

16. STAMP – no stamp

17. OTHER (WHO DOES), PRINT, STATS, update oclc/prev title

BEAT SERIALS –DONOR & COLLECTION NOTES

M. Molto – 4/14/15

1. Serendipity

   1. 590 Serendipity Bookstore Poetry Collection (no….).

   2. 590 Beat Little Magazine Collection.^a

2. Ernesto Edwards

   1. 590 Gift of Ernesto Edwards (no. …).

   2. 590 Beat Little Magazine Collection.^b

3. Charles Potts

   1. 590 Gift of the Charles Potts Collection (no. …).

   2. 590 Beat Little Magazine Collection.^b

4. Marie Eccles Caine

   1. 590 Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation (no. …).

   2. 590 Beat Little Magazine Collection.^b

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a All Serendipity issues go in the BLMC (Kathy S. email 11/25/14)

b If only some issues are in the BLMC, indicate:

590 Beat Little Magazine Collection (some issues).

Do not attach label/barcodes to physical issue, instead attach to the mylar envelope or to a paper flag inserted into the issue.

CHARLES POTTS SERIALS - GUIDELINES

M. Molto 4/14/15

1. K.S. – note - to Mavis Molto - 6/2/11

   1. Potts gift - These are part of a gift from Charles Potts. Could you please catalogue them for the Beat Magazine Collection but add the following note to the record:

      1. 590 Gift of the Charles Potts Collection.

   2. Timeline - Brad would like these done as soon as is convenient for you. Mr. Potts is visiting the university the first week of September and it would be nice if we had his collection processed as much as possible so he can see them.

   3. Additions - The various additions to titles we already own will be interfiled, but for the September visit we will keep them shelved together.

   4. Questions - Please let me know if you have any questions.

1. K.S. – other notes

   1. 090 field – Same as for Beat mags, also label.

   2. Inserts – Give to Kathy for separate file of his correspondence

1. L.W. – notes - 6/2/11

   1. Procedures – see I or R drive

   2. Inserts – attach to copy of record

   3. 590 – Charles Potts Collection.

   4. Books – go to Special Collections

1. M.M. – 590 fields - 4/14/15

   1. 590 Gift of the Charles Potts Collection.

   2. 590 Beat Little Magazine Collection.

Processing update, M.S. – 9/11/2018

No label/barcodes should be attached to original item

A-With Mylar cover:

1. Attach label to Mylar cover in usual place (don’t cover text or artwork)

2. Attach barcode to top back of issue’s Mylar cover.

B-Without mylar cover:

1. Attach barcode & label to paper slip and put in issue.

2. If we have the issue’s size of Mylar in Cataloging, go ahead and insert the issue (if flag is made: can put flag in front of envelope where it’s easily seen).

C-If issue is newsprint/newspaper with browning and flaking edges,

1. check out item to preservation in Sierra

2. fill out preservation slip with needs:

   • Please de-acidify, flatten, make Mylar envelope

3. Take down to preservation, and leave on Cart.

**Take down finished issues to Art Book Room and put on SCA “reshelving” shelves at the bottom, marked Art Book Room.