Abstract
The authors describe an effort led by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library, in collaboration with the Frick Art Reference Library, the National Gallery of Art Library, the Getty Research Institute Library, and the Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art, to archive thousands of auction catalog price list files. Previous locally developed solutions to save and link this data to auction catalog bibliographic records meant the time-consuming effort was duplicated across several libraries. In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum opened an Amazon Simple Storage (S3) account to store its price list, developed a simple convention for linking price list files with bibliographic records based on OCLC numbers, and made the account available to other libraries so they could divide the responsibility for archiving the price lists.
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