Creating The Pauling Catalogue: Special Features

[Part 8 of 9] Thanks in part to a number of special features that have been incorporated into the published Pauling Catalogue, the finished product is far from a simple listing of archival holdings. For starters, each volume contains an introduction by either a major historian of science, a member of the Pauling family or [...]

Creating The Pauling Catalogue: Page Design

[Part 7 of 9] Once the publication’s text had been encoded and its illustrations selected, the next major challenge in creating The Pauling Catalogue was the actual design of the publication, page-by-page and volume-by-volume.  This process was carried out chiefly through the skillful implementation of Adobe’s InDesign software. Having marked-up the raw text of the [...]

Creating The Pauling Catalogue: Typography and Proofreading

[Part 6 of 9] As work on The Pauling Catalogue moved further in the direction of what would become the finished product, one surprisingly difficult set of decisions requiring action concerned the typography of the set’s 1,700+ pages. After much research, two typefaces – Palatino Lynotype and Myriad Pro – and ten fonts were purchased [...]

Creating The Pauling Catalogue: More than One-Thousand Illustrations

[Part 5 of 9] The Pauling Catalogue contains over 1,200 illustrations in its 1,700+ pages of text. The long process underlying the selection of these images was based upon two fundamental guiding principles. First, it was the goal of the editorial team that The Pauling Catalogue be used to display certain of the more important [...]

Creating The Pauling Catalogue: Formatting Text with XML and XSL

[Part 4 of 9] One of the earliest and most pressing questions that the project team had to answer in constructing The Pauling Catalogue was how to go about formatting the text of such a massive document. The catalogue had been generated over many years as a series of WordPerfect word processing documents. While the [...]

Contents of The Pauling Catalogue

[Part 3 of 9] The Pauling Catalogue is a mammoth publication — six volumes, more than 1,700 pages and over 1,200 illustrations, the entirety of which is held in a slipcase and weighs in at over twenty pounds per set.  The six volumes are effectively a detailed outline of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling [...]

The Acquisition and Cataloging of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers

[Part 2 of 9] The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers consist of over 500,000 items requiring some 4,400 linear feet of storage space in the Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries Special Collections. The collection began arriving in Corvallis shortly after Pauling announced, in April 1986, that he would be donating his personal archive to [...]

The Creation of The Pauling Catalogue: Introduction

[Ed. Note: This is the first installment of a nine-part series detailing the creation of The Pauling Catalogue] A monument to one of the twentieth-century’s true giants, The Pauling Catalogue – over twenty years in the making – was fashioned with a duel purpose in mind: to disseminate scholarly information and to create an attractive, [...]