More Tosti

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to post another update! As we approach the end of the semester (already??) I have been thinking about the goals of my project and how I want to wrap it up in the final report. In terms of going through volumes and doing basic condition reports for individual prints, I am going to finish as much as I can. I have also been working on spreadsheets for each volume with the metadata from the original catalog, plus any corrections in metadata I made using the print themselves. For instance, a lot of the prints in the catalog have a generic title that does not help to identify the actual print (such as Frescoes in the hall of X), so I have been creating identifying titles using words that appear on the print. It could be an interesting future project for someone to do more research on individual prints and the works that are reproduced in the prints.

In my final report, I am hoping to explain my workflow and processes for going through the prints, and I am also hoping to draw some larger conclusions about the collection and its place in the Print Department and the library. I would like to discuss how the prints were used in the past, and how they could be used in the future. Hopefully, a report of this kind could make a case for conservation of the collection.