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See also our attempt to further pin Artists' Books (and their near relatives) down: Artist’s book, Private press, Small press, or Livre d’artiste?

Draft Workflow

Fixed Fields : most commonly cataloged

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as Monographic Book or Visual Materials

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format

Book format:

• The item’s primary content is textual (or wordless with relatively flat pictures)

• The item’s format is that of a “regular” book (has page(s) of some kind)

Visual Materials format:

• The item’s primary content is non-textual

  • The item is a deck of cards, kit, 3D object, or other non-book format

Remember that these categories are fluid

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• Use cataloger’s judgment and respect the decisions made by other catalogers

• And use

  other formats

  another format if

  they

  it better

  suit

  suits the Artist’s book

• Also, don’t completely redo another catalogers judgement when copy cataloging

050/090 LC call numbers:

• N7433.4.A-Z (Special artists), A-Z
  Under each artist:
  .xA7-.xZ6 Individual artists' books. By title, A-Z

• or N7433.3 (general works) for several artists working together or artist unknown?

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