General Information

General principles of Beinecke cataloging
Beinecke Technical Services mission statement
Physical care of volumes
RBC staff site
Beinecke Library staff site

Cataloging Resources

Cataloging at Yale
List of paleographic resources (MS Word)
List of standard reference works
NACO records for rare materials
Nominative forms of Latin names
Pre-1800 book trade personnel
Signature & pagination table

Links

ABAA Glossary of Book Collecting Terms
ABC for Book Collectors (PDF)
Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
Cataloger's Desktop
Classification Web
ESTC
ESTC (Web matching)
Heritage of the Printed Book (HPB)
LC Authorities
LC Catalog
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS)

Formats

3-D objects
Cartographic materials (Maps)
Graphics
Monographs
Music
Serials

Procedures

Art storage
Barcodes/Item records
Broadsides
ESTC reporting
Fund codes
LSF
Marking
Phonograph records
RLA recon clean-up
Source marking
Statistics
Substitutions
Transfers

Description and Access

Accompanying material
Analytics
Bibliographical citations
Binders/Bindings
Bound-with volumes
Call numbers
Chronology tracings
Collection level records
Comic books and graphic novels
Dates in 260 field
Dates in 264 fields
Ethnic literature
Genre/Form terms
Imprint tracings
Incunabula
LGBTQ resources
Local subdivisions
Material from the Manuscript Unit
Number line
Prepublication copies
Printings within an edition
Private Presses
Protest literature
Provenance
Publisher's dummies
Single-sheet publications
U.S. Congresss tracings

Curatorial Areas

General Collection (Year/Number)
Osborn Collection
Yale Collection of American Literature (Za/Zab)
Yale Collection of German Literature (Zg)
Yale Collection of Western Americana (Zc)

Collections

Bailey
College Pamphlets
Friedlander
Miniature books (Zm)
Nazraeli Press
New Directions
NYRB Classics
Palmquist WIPA
Publication Studio
Reference
Speck
Tanselle Collection of American Imprints
Valesio
Completed name collections