Extremely preliminary notes - November 2021
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590 Utah State University Library has number #
590 Library has copy 26.
590 Utah State University Special Collections and Archives has number 12.n ←for SCA items.
Subject and Genre
Artist’s book, Private press, Small press, or Livre d’artiste?
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655 Genre and Format terms:
In the past we have used Rare Books Binding & Genre Thesaurus (in SCA) or the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, but there are also newer sources available, such as Library of Congress Genre and Format Terms (available in Classification Plus, which useful) and Allison Jai’s Artists’ Book Thesaurus, which was created for ARLIS/North America (Art Libraries Society of North America): http://allisonjai.com/abt/vocab/index.php, but has no subfield 2 code as of 2021). .
On occasion, we have used our own Local list of genre terms, but usually for SCA only.
Just a few Selection of examples:
655 7 Artists’ books. |2 lcgft n ←in general, prefer lcgft for non-SCA items, if the term is in there
But older records might have:
655 7 Artists' books. |2 rbgenr
OR:
655 7 artists' books (books) |2 aat
We do not need all three identical 655 fields for Artists' booksthe same term, but we can have 650/655 combos in the same record:
650 0 Artists' books |v Specimens.
655 0 7 Artists' books |y 20th century. |2 lcgft
If familiar with the Rare Books Thesaurus for genre/form entry, feel free to add more detailed genre/form terms as needed:
655 7 Accordion fold format (Binding) |z United States |y 20th century. |2 rbbin
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655 7 Broadsides (Posters) |y 20th century. |2 lcgft655 7 Book objects. |2 lcgft ←for Sculptural works that mimic the format or structure of the book.
710 Name of the Press/Publisher is useful to add, if you can discover it.
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