List of reference sources of use in cataloging

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

General reference

• Amherst College research databases

Library and union catalogs

• English Short-Title Catalogue
• 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)
• 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)

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, 1979, charged to Cat. office
• Who's who in the theatre
  • recent editions in RR
  • 4th ed. (1922) in Art Dept. PN2012.W5
• Who's who on the stage, 1908, charged to Cat. Office

Artists, printmakers, print publishers

• Bénézit, E. Dictionary of artists
  • Deck A-Ref. N40 .B4713 2006
• British Museum name authority file
  • (pick "People" from the "Category" drop-down)
• Getty Union list of artists' name online

Booksellers, printers, book publishers

• British Book Trade Index [via WWW]
• Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History
• Plomer, H.R. Dict. of the booksellers and printers, 1641-1667
  • via Google Books
• 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
• Scottish Book Trade Index

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.

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

• Alumni Cantabrigienses
  • LF124 .A2 1900a Part 1 (to 1751) in Cataloging Office; Part 1 & 2 (1751-1900) in Reading Room.
• Alumni Oxonienses, covering 1500-1714, 1968 Kraus reprint.
  • LF524 .A22 1500- 1714a Copy2 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
• Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, 1847
  • Harvard copy digitized 2007: http://books.google.com/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ
• Burke's peerage and gentry

(There are also print versions of these in the Cataloging Office)

• 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
• 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

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.

Broadsides

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

Continental books

General European

• ISTC (Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue)
• USTC (Universal Short-Title Catalogue), 15th-16th century
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog

Flanders

• Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen

France

• Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France

German-language

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

Netherlands

• Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands

Controlled vocabularies

• RBMS Controlled Vocabularies
• RBMS Relationship Designators
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus
• [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/ LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

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. Brit. botanical lit.

Legal documents

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

Maps

• Map History / History of Cartography

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. Poetical miscellanies
• Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
  • Z2014.B2 L7
  • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Engl. ballads
• English verse, 1701-1750
  • Z2014.P7 F6 copy 2 Cat. Dept.
  • Cite as: Foxon