The highlight of my shift this afternoon was finding a book given to Harvard to rebuild after a 1764 fire that wiped out the library by one of our most important benefactors, the English barrister Thomas Hollis… that wasn’t listed in HOLLIS, his namesake catalog.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 08:39:47 JST John Overholt - kaia likes this.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 08:39:48 JST John Overholt Shelfreading update: over the last three days, we looked at 5000 titles and identified 300 call numbers that weren’t in HOLLIS, our online catalog. With the caveats that not all of those will turn out to be completely uncataloged, and that we intentionally started with the area we thought would have the highest rate of problems, that’s potentially a major gain in research potential for the collection in our first attempt.