How to discover uncatalogued material

The first part of the workflow is discovering and exploring what uncatalogued material we hold. This will be taking place all year round.

Why is this important?

• Increase awareness of uncatalogued material across Wellcome Collection

• Generate and encourage ideas and discussion across teams

• Align discussions with wider strategies

• May create partnership opportunities

Where to look?

• Archive material:

  • Collection level descriptions available via the online catalogue

  • Annual return on new accessions created as part of The National Archives Accessions to Repositories survey. See here for link to 2021 survey.

• Visual material:

  • Quickbase for data gathered as part of inventory

  • For visual material acquired as part of an archive see above

• Manuscripts:

  • Wellcome Collection Manuscript Guide

  • Quickbase for data gathered as part of inventory

  • Annual return on new accessions created as part of The National Archives Accessions to Repositories survey

• Early printed books:

  • Excel spreadsheets for data gathered as part of inventory

• Audio-visual material:

  • Excel spreadsheets for data gathered as part of inventory

  • For audio-visual material acquired as part of an archive see above

Ways to discuss or flag ideas

• 'Buddy up' with someone in Collections Information

• Team meetings

• Informal conversations

• ideas-pick-n-mix Slack channel

• Use of GitHub projects (tbc)