Donor, Honoree, and Special Purchases
The Acquisitions and Licensing Department and the Cataloging and Metadata Department work collaboratively with the Development Office, Collection Managers, and the Special and Area Studies Collections Department to coordinate procedures related to donor, honoree, endowment, and other special purchases. The Departments support efforts to publicly acknowledge individual and corporate donations by providing access to donor, honoree, endowment, and collection names through the catalog.
The Development Office, Collection Managers, or Special and Area Studies Collections Department librarians contact the Acquisitions and Licensing Department (Paul Lightcap for purchased material and David Allerton for gift material) with the following information when an item is designated a donor or honoree gift.
- Name of donor, honoree, endowment fund, or collection
- Type of note to be added to the catalog:
Gift of
Gift in memory of
Gift in honor of
Gift in celebration of
[Name of collection]
[Name of endowment]
It is permissable to use additional gift notes to accommodate special requests. Gift notes can be combined as needed also, e.g., Gift of Sue Jones in memory of Robert Jones.
Examples:
Gift of Marcia Andrews
Gift in memory of Robert Smith
Gift in honor of Lynne Anderson
Gift in celebration of Gregory T. Smith, Jr.
The Caribbean Collection
Dr. Madelyn M. Lockhard Book Fund in African Studies
In cases where the donation is already received and cataloged, the information may be sent directly to the Cataloging and Metadata Department (Doug Smith) for updating the catalog. Title and barcode number should be sent along with the information above.
ACQ/CAT WORKFLOW
Gift material: the Gifts Unit adds a tickler to the holding for internal tracking (do not remove); flags the item with the name of the donor, honoree, or collection; and sends it to the Copy Cataloging Unit. The Copy Cataloging Unit distributes the item for cataloging according to the guidelines below.
Purchased material: the Monographs Unit flags the item with the name of the collection or endowment fund and sends it to the Copy Cataloging Unit. The Copy Cataloging Unit distributes the item for cataloging according to the guidelines below.
CATALOGING GUIDELINES
Bibliographic record
Add the name of the donor and/or honoree in a 796 field. Use a locally defined 2nd indicator 3.
Add the name of the collection or endowment in a 797 field. Use a locally defined 2nd indicator 3.
The 796 and 797 fields are keyword accessible through Endeca and Aleph. Those with 2nd indicator 3 are included in a donor facet in Endeca.
Holding record
Add an 856 field with the following subfields:
|y [gift note with name]
|u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=[gift note: name]
|x gift
The url links to a bookplate image. The specific name added at the end of the url automatically appears as part of the bookplate image. Remember to add a colon and space after the gift note in the url to generate a line break in the image. It is possible to generate up to two additional line breaks using a colon and space (e.g., Gift of: Susan Spenser: Class of 2008: Master's in Business Administration). The colon does not display in the image.
Examples
Bibliographic record:
796 13 Bryan, Charles W., |c Jr., |e donor. |5 FU
Holding record:
856 42 |y Gift of Charles W. Bryan, Jr. |u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=Gift of: Charles W. Bryan, Jr. |x gift
Bibliographic record:
796 13 Jones, Chris, |e honoree. |5 FU
Holding record:
856 42 |y Gift in honor of Chris Jones |u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=Gift in honor of: Chris Jones |x gift
Bibliographic record:
796 13 Cohen, Sadie M. |e honoree. |5 FU
Holding record:
856 42 |y Gift in memory of Sadie M. Cohen |u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=Gift in memory of: Sadie M. Cohen |x gift
Bibliographic record:
796 13 Jamison, Elizabeth, |e honoree. |5 FU
Holding record:
856 42 |y Gift in celebration of Elizabeth Jamison, Class of 2008 |u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=Gift in celebration of: Elizabeth Jamison: Class of 2008 |x gift
Bibliographic record:
797 23 Whitney R. Harris Collection. |5 FU
Holding record:
856 42 |y Whitney R. Harris Collection |u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=Whitney R. Harris Collection |x gift
Bibliographic record:
797 23 Mary Ellen Burnett Endowment for Works on Animals. |5 FU
Holding record:
856 42 |y Mary Ellen Burnett Endowment for Works on Animals |u http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/tools/bookplate/donor.htm?donor=Mary Ellen Burnett Endowment for Works on Animals |x gift
Indexed: Donor, Honoree, and Special Purchases
Revised: September 16, 2008
