Already completed tagging of: <001> ID number <245a> Title <260> Publication / Creation info <852b> Collection name Still to do (Vinnie): 1) tag as <100>: authors, creators, etc. (usually first element after <001> number):

Iamblichus Chalcidensis (ca. 240-325)

William Caslon (1693-1766)

Kelmscott Press

2) tag as <300>: material, type, size,

Printed on parchment

Printed on paper

Autograph manuscript, 3 vols., 1793-1799

Foolscap size (platen 35.3 x 49.4 cm., bed 45.6 x 60.9 cm.)

Bronze, (height 15.9 cm., bottom diameter 30.5 cm.)

6.5 x 8 cm.

3) tag as <541> anything about donor or gift or acquisition (usually last element) e.g.,

Purchased with the American Type Founders Company Library & Museum, 1941

Purchased with funds provided by Sylvia and Joseph Radov, 2003

Owned by Yi Sŏng-ŭi, Purchase, 1968

Acquired in 2003

Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881

4) tag as <520> each descriptive paragraph: repeating tag for each paragraph if multiple

Alexander Anderson has long been considered the father of wood engraving in America, being the first in this country to adopt the technique developed in England by Thomas Bewick. Wood engraving produces a finer image than the standard woodcut by working on the denser end-grain section of the wood. Anderson acknowledged his debt to Bewick in 1804 by creating an American edition of Bewick’s A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) with his own re-engraved blocks, adding “some American animals not hitherto described.”

Anderson’s connections to Columbia are many. He received an M.D. from Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1796, engraved Columbia’s commencement ticket in 1794, and a bookplate for the College Library. As noted in his diary, he began sketching the design for the bookplate on March 14, 1795, delivered the finished work to President Johnson on March 25th, and was, after some effort on his part, paid £2, 8s on May 7th.

5) tag as <500> any other unknown element, e.g.,

One volume of six surviving volumes

Lower pastedown in the binding of UTS Ms. 14 

6) create as (and if needed) normalized forms of dates; use minus sign for BCE dates, e.g., if <260>[Holland?: Laurens Janszoon Coster?, by 1463?] then also create: 1463 if <300>Autograph manuscript, 3 vols., 1793-1799 then also create 1793 1799 if <260>China, Shang Dynasty, ca. 1300-1015 BCE then also create -1300 -1015 7) create normalized forms of names (to come -- SPD / Terry) 8) add thematic subject to each record based on text section, (SPD / Terry) e.g.: <650>Printing History & Book Arts 9) correct character set problems 10) remove extraneous markup