This article addresses the challenge to make printed hidden collections known quickly without sacrificing ultimate quality. It takes as its starting point the archival mantra ‘More product, less process’ and explores its application to printed books, mindful of projects in the United States to catalogue 19th- and 20th-century printed books quickly and cheaply with the help of OCLC. A problem is lack of time or managerial inclination ever to return to ‘quick and dirty’ imports. This article is a case study concerning a collection of 18th-century English imprints, the Graveley Parish Library, at Senate House Library, University of London. Faced with the need to provide metadata as quickly as possible for digitisation purposes, Senate House Library decided, in contrast to its normal treatment of early printed books, to download records from the English Short Title Catalogue and amend them only very minimally before releasing them for public view, and to do this work from catalogue cards rather than the books themselves. The article describes the Graveley Parish collection, the project method’s rationale, and the advantages and disadvantages of sourcing the English Short Title Catalogue for metadata. It discusses the drawbacks of retrospective conversion (cataloguing from cards, not books): insufficient detail in some cases to identify the relevant book, and ignorance of the copy-specific elements of books which can constitute the main research interest. The method is compared against cataloguing similar books from photocopies of title pages, and retrospective conversion using English Short Title Catalogue is compared against retrospective conversion of early printed Continental books from cards using Library Hub Discover or OCLC. The control groups show our method’s effectiveness. The project succeeded by producing records fast that fulfilled their immediate purpose and simultaneously would obviously require revisiting. The uniform nature of the collection enabled the saving of time through global changes.

本文解决了在不牺牲最终质量的情况下快速公开印刷的隐藏收藏的挑战。它以档案格言“更多的产品，更少的过程”为出发点，并探索其在印刷书籍中的应用，并注意到美国在 OCLC 的帮助下对 19 世纪和 20 世纪印刷书籍进行快速、廉价编目的项目。一个问题是没有时间或管理人员倾向于返回“快速而肮脏”的进口。本文是关于伦敦大学参议院图书馆的 Graveley 教区图书馆收藏的 18 世纪英语印记的案例研究。面对为数字化目的尽快提供元数据的需要，参议院图书馆决定，与其对早期印刷书籍的正常处理不同，从英文短标题目录下载记录，并在发布它们以供公众查看之前对其进行最低限度的修改，并从目录卡片而不是书籍本身进行这项工作。文章描述了 Graveley Parish 集合、项目方法的基本原理，以及为元数据采购英文短标题目录的优缺点。它讨论了追溯转换的缺点（从卡片而不是书籍中编目）：在某些情况下没有足够的细节来识别相关书籍，以及对可以构成主要研究兴趣的书籍特定副本元素的无知。该方法与从标题页的影印件中对类似书籍进行编目进行比较，将使用英文短标题目录的追溯转换与使用 Library Hub Discover 或 OCLC 从卡片中追溯转换早期印刷的大陆书籍进行比较。对照组显示了我们方法的有效性。该项目成功地快速制作了满足其直接目的的记录，同时显然需要重新审视。集合的统一性质可以通过全局更改来节省时间。