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General Collection

Books on all topics, with particular strength in sixteenth through twentieth-century English and American Literature. The General Collection (uncats) consists of recent purchases and gifts awaiting cataloging. Materials span the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, mostly in Roman alphabet languages (plus a few Cyrillic items).

Most of the collection is cataloged, but only a small portion of these catalog records have been converted to machine readable form.

ca. 71,781 v.

All items in the collection have cards in the Special Collections Main Entry File, except items that have been cataloged online. Items cataloged online do not have cards in the Main Entry or Subject File. Items acquired and cataloged in the last few years and completed transfers are in the online catalog. Uncataloged materials can be accessed through an accession file, arranged alphabetically by title, as well as through the Special Collections Main Entry File.

Each item has a different provenance. For information on an item, see the bibliographic record and the Permanent Transaction File.

Periodicals with Dewey classification numbers that have been transferred to Special Collections from the Periodicals Room.

Cataloged and in the online catalog.

By Dewey number.

61 shelves (ca. 1350 v.)

Items are represented in the Norlin and Special Collections shelflists, in the online catalog, and in the published serials list. Some are also in the Special Collections Main Entry File. There is no collection file.

Transferred to Special Collections from the Norlin General Collection.

Books that are in the process of being transferred into Special Collections from the Norlin stacks and the branch libraries. This is a temporary collection. When the transfer has been completed, the item is integrated into our holdings.

Cataloged.

By transfer accession number.

66 shelves (ca. 3121 v.)

Most transfer books have records on Chinook with assigned "T" numbers. Others can be located through the transfer card file in Special Collections.

From the Norlin and branch library collections.

Reference works for use by Special Collections staff and patrons, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, price guides, works on the history of books and printing, recent periodicals, catalogs, and locally produced guides.

Cataloged and most records are online.

Partially arranged by Library of Congress classification number. It is divided into Reference (27 cm. and under) and Reference Oversize (over 27 cm.)

25 shelves (410 v., 220 titles).