Lighting the Past – aretrospective rare bookcataloguing project

摘要

In 2011, the Director of the University of St Andrews Library set the goal of eliminating the University’s rarebook cataloguing backlog within ten years. At that time, only about one third of the more than 200,000 earlyand rare printed books in Special Collections were accessible via the online catalogue, leaving approximately135,000 books in need of cataloguing. Those records which did exist in the OPAC were of varying quality:some were minimal records containing only truncated versions of title and imprint; others were detailed recordsbut with non-standard access points.