| Abstract: | ABSTRACT A collection of culinary and related materials at the William L. Clements Library has potential uses beyond the niche of culinary history, expanding into and beyond the emerging interdiscipline of food studies. The library is considering other holdings for related content. Such collections are inadequately served by existing subject access. Experiments with plentiful subject access are being tried, including an unusual use of MARC records for ephemera, a database recording mentions of food-related phenomena in Civil War correspondence, and experimentation with a controlled vocabulary. These experiments have drawn on a “community of interest,” including subject specialists and volunteer docents. |
