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This sourcebook outlines cataloguing techniques for a wide variety of resources, from ancient artifacts to architectural drawings. Profiling the methods of experts from libraries, art galleries, museums and other institutions, the text offers practical guidance for organizing diverse materials.
Reviews (2)
Booklist Review
This helpful resource for libraries that catalog artworks and visual representations of them deals with the practices of public, academic, museum, historical society, and other libraries. The first part includes extensive tables mapping the use of the MARC format for the types of materials cataloged by the institutions covered in the second and third parts. The second part reports nine projects for cataloging visual documents, chiefly slides. The third covers seven more projects that catalog not only such visual images as photographs, engineering drawings, and illustrated sheet music but also museum objects ("realia" in AACR2-speak), specifically the collection of ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals and their impressions in the Pierpont Morgan Library. A major asset for encouraging libraries to include such materials in their general catalogs.
Library Journal Review
During the more than 20 years the MARC format has been in use, it has been adapted to fit individual types of bibliographic formats and to integrate these into a unified system. Although this system works fairly well for the standard bibliographic item, cataloging art materials requires extensive modification of the system as well as expanded descriptive guidelines. This is the first publication to provide specific descriptive formats along with an extensive section delineating the experiences of a variety of newly developed art cataloging projects involving visual documents as well as original works. These include collection vs. item-level cataloging, adaptation of MARC tagging for slide collections, and the potentially vital linkage of scanned images and text records. There is a brief dictionary of the relevant MARC fields, including conversion of the standard descriptive fields to suit the needs of the media. An excellent bibliography reflecting the extensive nature of this work completes this major contribution to the literature. This practical source is the fine result of shared experience and one that should be on the shelves in the technical services of any institution involved with visual materials. Access for the user is what cataloging is all about, and this publication should be a great asset in achieving that.ÄPaula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. v |
Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Part I Introduction | p. 1 |
Tables of MARC Mapping | p. 17 |
Part II MARC Projects: Visual Documents | p. 39 |
1 The Rensselaer Slide Database in Retrospect | p. 41 |
2 Mapping to MARC at the Bibliotheque de l'Amenagement, Universite de Montreal | p. 53 |
3 Planning for Automation of the Slide and Photograph Collections at the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Draft MARC/Visual Materials Record | p. 62 |
4 Why and How MARC Is Being Used for Automating the Architecture Slide Collection at Clemson University | p. 68 |
5 Cataloging for Art's Sake at Florida International University | p. 73 |
6 Cataloging Architecture Slides at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln | p. 79 |
7 Image Cataloging in MARC at the University of Virginia | p. 84 |
8 MARCing Architecture | p. 93 |
9 National Gallery of Art Slide Library, Washington, D.C. | p. 101 |
Part III MARC Projects: Original Works | p. 117 |
10 The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture: Cataloging in MARC | p. 119 |
11 The National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | p. 127 |
12 Washingtoniana II: Cataloging Architectural, Design, and Engineering Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress | p. 144 |
13 MARC Format for the Photograph Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum | p. 154 |
14 Cataloging Images in MARC at the California Historical Society | p. 160 |
15 From Cuneiform to MARC: A Database for Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals Owned by the Pierpont Morgan Library | p. 180 |
16 The Performing Arts Index at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | p. 196 |
Appendixes | |
A Core Categories for Visual Resources, Version 2.0 | p. 209 |
B Washingtoniana II Data Dictionary | p. 223 |
Bibliography | p. 265 |
Contributors | p. 277 |
Index | p. 281 |