Cataloging and digitizing ephemera : One team's experience with Pennsylvania German broadsides and Fraktur

Library Resources and Technical Services

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 186-198

  Copeland, Ann ^a   Hamburger, Susan ^a   Hamilton, John ^a   Robinson, Kenneth J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33746330719     PISSN: 00242527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/lrts.50n3.186     Document Type: Article

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2. Joanne D. Chaison, '"Everything Old Is New Again': Research Collections at the American Antiquarian Society," Library Trends 52, no. 1 (2003): 14-29.
3. Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, "An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera," http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html (accessed Oct. 4, 2005).
4. Corinne Earnest and Russell Earnest, To the Latest Posterity: Pennsylvania-German Family Registers in the Fraktur Tradition (University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., 2004);
5. Russell Earnest and Corinne Earnest, with Edward L. Rosenberry, Flying Leaves and One-Sheets: Pennsylvania German Broadsides, FrakturandTheirPrinters (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Pr., 2005);
6. Don Yoder, The Pennsylvania German Broadside: A History and Guide (University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., 2005);
7. Library Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-German Broadsides: Windows into an American Culture (exhibition held September 16, 2005-April 14, 2006 at the Library Company of Philadelphia), www .librarycompany.org/broadsides/index. htm (accessed Apr. 1, 2006);
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10. Stephen J. Zeitz, "Ephemera: MARC-Formatted Cataloging Records," Rare Book and Manuscript Librarianship 1, no. 2 (1992): 152. Ibid.
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22. Charles M. Stacy, "Fraktur, Sütterlinschrift, Old English and the ABC's," ATA Chronicle (Sept. 1996): 14-15.
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28. R. G. Arens created the Sütterlin font used in the figures in this paper figures; it is available for down-load from Peter Dörling's Web site, Read Suetterlin: Read Blackletters, www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/ Sutterlin.htm (accessed Oct. 11, 2005).
29. The Fraktur font used in the figures is called Walbaum Fraktur and was created by Dieter Steffmann. It is available at Walbaum-Fraktur, http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/ steffmann/samples/w/walbaum.htm (accessed Oct. 11, 2005).
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43. Maurice Rickards, The Encyclopedia of Ephemera (New York: Routledge, 2000), v.
44. Earnest and Earnest, Flying Leaves and One-Sheets, xiii.