We’ve got some other letters to choose from — Cooperative, Volunteer, Territorial, Keepa, what else?

BLOC: Bernhisel Library Online Catalogue
BLOG: Bernhisel Library Online Guide
BULC: Bernhisel Utah Library Catalogue
Bernie Link
Project Bernie

Then they started to get a little silly, so we’ll draw a veil over the remaining discussion.

Would you like to sign up for categories — not just the sections that have been posted, but any of the catalog sections? I could email you a text file for that part of the catalog (although so far I’ve only got about half of it typed up), and you could paste your URLs below the book entry and email it back to me. Once somebody has done all they care to do in one section, we could report that so that anyone else who wanted to do further checking could know they weren’t duplicating work.

Or I’m open to a better suggestion.

Researcher has also found material on some of the authors that we could link to, if you-all want to watch for succinct biographical entries.

And somebody clever can come up with name with a cool acronym for this project!

I’m not sure who sorted the materials into sections for this catalog — was it Bernhisel’s original listing? did Staines do it in his role as librarian? was it for Brigham H. Young’s convenience in setting type? Categories don’t seem to be consistent or even well thought out, so if the Tattler is a periodical it isn’t too surprising to find it in this part of the catalog rather than with the bulk of periodicals.

Also: Google Book links can be unwieldy but (IMHO) nothing after and including the first ampersand “&” is necessary. The short link goes to the “about this book” page. For example:

http://books.google.com/books?id=-qwOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ranke,+History+of+the+Popes:

becomes

http://books.google.com/books?id=-qwOAAAAYAAJ

Harper’s Weekly didn’t begin publication until 1857, so it obviously wouldn’t have been available at the time Dr. Bernhisel was gathering books for the library.

And, it was Godey’s Lady’s Book. Which was available from 1830 onwards.

In just four years in Manhattan, Whitman works briefly at the Tattler, the Daily Plebeian, the Statesman, the Mirror, the Democrat, the Sun and the Star.

Anybody know anything more about this? I suppose it was a periodical.

That raises another question: did Dr Bernhisel subscribe to any periodicals? What about Harper’s Weekly, or a Godey’s Ladies Book? Were those read by people in Utah? Is there any way to find circulation information by state/territory?