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See also our attempt to further pin these down, below: Artist’s book, Private press, Small press, or Livre d’artiste?

Useful MARC fields:

Draft Workflow:

Fixed Fields : most commonly cataloged as OCLC Books or Visual Materials

Use the Book workform if:

The item’s primary content is textual

The item’s format is that of a “regular” book

Use the Visual Materials workform if:

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!

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

100 and 700 artists and other creators:

Common relationship designators include:
Work-level:

$e book artist
$e artist
$e author

Manifestation-level:

$e engraver
$e lithographer
$e papermaker
$e printer
$e publisher

Item-level:

$e binder

500 Artefactual details

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590 Utah State University Library has number #

590 Library has copy 26.

650/655 Possible s.h./genre terms:

650 0 Letterpress printing #z United States #x Specimens.

650 0 Paper, Handmade #z United States #x Specimens.

650 0 Fine bindings #z United States #x Specimens.

655 7 Broadsides #y 20th century. #2 rbgenr

650 0 Toy and movable books #x Specimens.

710 Name of the Press/Publisher is useful to add, if you can discover it.

710 2 Name of Press (check for authorized form, if available)

6xx Artist’s book, Private press, Small press, or Livre d’artiste?

Artists books are produced by artists and intended as visual art objects; they often play with the form or idea of a book.
Small press are put out by a small press and finely produced (handmade paper, etc.) with runs of less than 500.
Private press is a guy in a garage.
Privately printed is something printed for an individual (older rare books, in SCA, not usually 20^th century).
Livre d’artiste is an overlapping term for books containing collections of original works of art, usually printed directly from a source created by the artist themselves, rather than from a source that was created by a technician from the artist's design. Originated in France around the turn of the 20th century.

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However: if an artist states that the item is an Artist’s Book, then catalog it as an Artist’s Book

655 7 Artists’ books #y 20th century. #2 rbgenr

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655 7 Livres d’artistes |2 rbgenr