Document Type
Article
Organization
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Conference Title
Brick & Click 2024
City and State
Maryville, MO
Conference Date
Nov. 1, 2024
Publication Date
11-1-2024
Abstract
The Al Harris Library received a donation of the archive of retired astronaut General Thomas P. Stafford. The continually growing collection includes over 200 boxes containing NASA reports, professional and personal pictures, videos, and more. Part of the collection is the approximately 700 books used for research by Stafford and his co-author Michael Cassutt to write the memoir We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race (2002). Half of these books are a collection of Soviet-era Russia (USSR) space program books and periodicals written in Russian. Michael Cassutt has characterized the books as the most comprehensive collection about the USSR space program. The main issue the library ran into was how to catalog books in a foreign language no one could read. This article will discuss the unique solutions developed to ensure these items were cataloged properly, and the issues that came up and had to be addressed.
Recommended Citation
Loving, Katherine; Fitzsimmons, Phillip; and Kitova, Ekaterina, "You Want Me to Do What? But I Can’t Read That... Cataloging Soviet Russia Space Exploration Books" (2024). Faculty Articles & Research. 69.
https://dc.swosu.edu/libraries_articles/69
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