List of reference sources of use in cataloging

This article lists resources catalogers will find useful for bibliographical and biographical reference.

General reference

Cataloging

• WorldCat indexes for command line searching in Connexion
• Guide for creating records in multiple character sets (PCC)

Externally-created macro dictionaries

• http://www.hahnlibrary.net/libraries/oml/connex.html
• https://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2556

Research databases

• Amherst College (by license)
• British History Online (by license)

Library and union catalogs

• British Library catalogue
• Copac (union catalogues of ~90 major UK and Irish libraries)
• Heritage of the Printed Book (by license; coming)
• Library of Congress online catalog
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs

Sources for librarianship

• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books)
• Examples to Accompany Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books)
• Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging
• Directory of web resources for the rare materials cataloger
• DCRM-L Archives
• Etherington & Roberts. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books : A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology.
• Rietz, Joan M. Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

Material description / provenance

• British armorial bindings, University of Toronto
• Can you help? Identifying provenance evidence (Consortium of European Reseaerch Libraries)
• Folger armorial bindings (Oldfield's list) (Word doc)
• Language of Bindings (Ligatus)
• Medieval and early modern manuscripts: bookbinding terms, materials, methods, and models (Special Collections Conservation Unit of the Preservation Department of Yale University Library) (PDF doc)

Art reference

General

• Grove Art Online (via Oxford Art Online)

Catalogues raisonnés

• Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists
• Hollstein and New Hollstein (need to add bibliographic info)
• Illustrated Bartsch (not at Folger; need to add bibliographic info)

Provenance

• Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes

Biographical information

General

• Biography resource center (Gale)
• Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, 2nd ed.
  • CT143.M5 1880 Deck A Ref
• Library of Congress Authority File
• Nouvelle biographie generale depuis les temps les plus reculees jusqu'a nos jours, 1854-66
  • RR-Ref: CT143 .H5
• Virtual International Authority File
  • source is found in field 001 and in a column on the results screen

Actors and other theater folk

• Harvard Theatre Collection. Catalogue of dramatic portraits in the Theatre Collection of the Harvard College Library. (charged to Cat. Office)
• Highfill, Philip H. A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800
  • RR Ref PN2597.H5 Copy 1; copy 2 on Deck B
• Wearing, J.P. American and British theatrical biography
  • PN2285.W42 1979
• Who's who in the theatre
  • PN2012.W5 (recent editions in RR)
  • 4th ed. (1922) in Art Dept. PN2012.W5
• Who's who on the stage, 1908 (American)

Artists, printmakers, print publishers

• Bénézit, E. Dictionary of artists
  • Deck A-Ref. N40 .B4713 2006
• Houfe, Simon. Dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists, 1800-1914
  • DeckA-Art Curator NC978 .H7 Art Dept. [Collection Information Services Office]
• Wood, Christopher. Dictionary of Victorian painters.
  • DeckA-Art Curator ND467 .W6 1978 Art Dept. [Collection Information Services Office]
• British Museum name authority file
  • (pick "People" from the "Category" drop-down)
• Union List of Artist Names online (Getty Research Institute)
• rkdartists& database (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie/Netherlands Institute for Art History)

Booksellers, printers, book publishers

British

• British Book Trade Index
• Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History
• London Book Trades (Michael Turner)
• Scottish Book Trade Index
• Brown, P.A.H. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870
  • DeckB-Mod Z152.L8 B7 [checked out to Cat. Office indefinitely]
• Morgan, Paul, ed. Warwickshire printers' notices 1799-1866
  • Deck B-Mod DA670.W3 D88 v.28
• Plomer, H.R. Dictionary of the booksellers and printers, 1641-1667
  • via Google Books
  • via Hathi Trust
• Plomer, H. A dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1641-1775 (3 v.)
  • Deck A-Cat Z151.D52-54

Continental

• Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600 in Cambridge libraries (2 v.)
  • Z921.C15 Cat. Off. Index of printers in v. 2.
• Dictionnaire des imprimeurs-lithographes du XIXe siècle

Musicians

• Grove music online
  • via link to New Grove dictionary of music and musicians on Amherst databases; comprises the New Grove dictionary of music, New Grove dictionary of opera, and New Grove dictionary of jazz
• The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 1980
  • ML100.N4 R.R.

Writers

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Nationalities

American

• American national biography (Online), c2000
• Dictionary of American biography, 1928-1958
  • RR-Ref: E176 .D56 R.R.
• Who was who in America
  • Deck A-Ref. E663 .W55

British and Irish

• Alumni Cambridge
  • Cambridge Alumni Database (1200-1900)
  • Alumni cantabrigienses LF124 .A2 1900a Part 1 (to 1751) in Cataloging Office; Part 1 & 2 (1751-1900) in Reading Room.
• Alumni Oxford
  • Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, (British History Online; by license)
  • Print version: LF524 .A22 1500–1714a copy 2 Cat. Dept.
• Betham, William. The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families
  • CS424 .B56 Cage, v.1-5
• Bibliography of British and Irish History (Brepolis)
• Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, 1847
  • Harvard copy digitized 2007: http://books.google.com/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ
  • (There are also print versions of these in the Cataloging Office)
• Cambridge
• Cokayne, George E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom
  • CS421 .C71 R.R
• Cokayne, George E. Complete baronetage, 1900-1909
  • CS424 .C6
• English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century
• Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004-
• Victoria history of the counties of England
  • in New Reading Room, DA670.1, arranged alphabetically by county
• Who was who
  • Deck A-Ref. DA28 .W65

Croatian

• Hrvatski biografski leksikon, 1983–2013

Czech

• Bibliografie dějin Českých zemí
• Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze

Danish

• Boghandlere i Danmark (Booksellers of Denmark)
• Kuntsindeks Danmark (Art Index Denmark)

French

• Dictionnaire de biographie française, 1933-; up to v. 19 (La Valĺe) only.
  • CT143.D5 RR-Ref

German

• Allgemeine deutsche Biographie & Neue deutsche Biographie
  • RR Desk: CD-Rom 42; index to the print ADB and NDB
• Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 1875-1912
  • CT1053 .A5 Deck A Ref.
• Neue deutsche Biographie, 1956-,
  • CT1053 .N5 Deck A Ref.

Hungarian

• Magyar írók élete és munkái, 1891-1914
• Clavis Typographorum Regionis Carpathicae - "a database for printing and publishing that includes all data of printing houses and publishers working in the actual territory of the Hungarian state from the beginnings of local printing in 1473 to its nationalisation in 1948."

Polish

• Internetowy Polski słownik biograficzny (iPSB) [online version of the Polish Biographical Dictionary - may be incomplete]

Welsh

• Dictionary of Welsh Biography

British books

• Copac (union catalogues of ~90 major UK and Irish libraries)
• Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) (Access limited by licensing agreements)
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) (Access limited by licensing agreements)
• Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker (Benjamin Pauley)
• English Short-Title Catalogue

Broadsides

• Catalogue of English broadsides, 1505-1897
  • Z2027.B8 L6
  • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides

Continental books

General European

• ISTC (Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue)
• USTC (Universal Short-Title Catalogue) European books to 1600
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
• Dictionary of abbreviations commonly used by German and Italian antiquarian booksellers and auctioneers

Flanders

• Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV)

France

• Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France
• SUDOC (Système Universitaire de Documentation)

German-language

• BSB (Die Bayerische StaatsBibliothek) Portal to VD16, VD17, other resources for early printed materials

Iberia

• Catalogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliografico Espanol
• Iberian Book Project
  • Iberian books: books published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601 (IB16). Z2682.I24 2010 copy 2 Deck A Ref
• Palau y Dulcet. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.). Z2681 .P26 Deck A Ref

Italy

• Clubb, L.G. Italian plays (1500-1700) in the Folger Library. Z881.F6 copy 3 Acq. Dept.
• Cosenza, M.E. Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian printers, and of foreign printers in Italy from the introduction of the art of printing into Italy to 1800. Z155 .C6 (Cataloging Office)
• EDIT 16
• Florio's 1611 Italian/English dictionary

Netherlands

• Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands (STCN)

Controlled vocabularies

• RBMS Controlled Vocabularies
• RBMS Relationship Designators
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus
• LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
• Language of Bindings (Ligatus)
• PCC Training Manual for Applying Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records (2015-01-22)

Emblem books

• French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827
  • PN6349.Z9 L31
  • Cite as: Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827

Geographic place names

• Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1963.
  • Deck A MSS Ref.
• USGS Geographic Names Information System
• Watts, Victor, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, 2004.
  • Deck A MSS Ref.

Herbals

• British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800
  • Z5352 .H3 Deck A Ref.
  • Cite as: Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800

Legal documents

• Tudor and Stuart proclamations, 1485-1714
  • DA310 .C725 copy 2 (folio) Cat. Dept.
  • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714

Maps

• Map History / History of Cartography

Modern materials cataloging

Material-specific cataloging resources

• CONSER cheat sheet
• AV & Nonprint Glossary (OLAC)
• Best Practices for Cataloging DVD Video and Blu-ray Discs
• MLA Best Practices for Music Cataloging (as of February 2014)
• Cataloging screenplays in RDA (Lilly Library)

Shakespeare bibliographies

English

• Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Some account of the antiquities, coins, manuscripts, rare books, ancient documents, and other reliques illustrative of the life and works of Shakespeare

• PR2933.H3H18 copy 2 Ms.Off.

German

• Blinn, Hansjürgen & Wolf Gerhard Schmidt. Shakespeare-deutsch: Bibliographie der Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen. 2003

• PR2971.G3 B57 2003
• See also the Folgerpedia supplement to this work

Theater

• Langhans, E.A. Eighteenth century British and Irish promptbooks, 1987
  • PN2593 L2 copy 2, charged to Cataloging Dept
• Oxford companion to the theatre
  • PN2035 .H3 1983 RR
• Shattuck, C.H. The Shakespeare promptbooks, 1965
  • PR3091 .S4 copy 6 Cat. Dept.

Verse

• Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750
  • Z2014.P7 C3 Copy 1 Cat. Dept.
  • Cite as: Case, A.E. Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750
• Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
  • Z2014.B2 L7
  • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of a collection of English ballads
• English verse, 1701-1750
  • Z2014.P7 F6 copy 2 Cat. Dept.
  • Cite as: Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750