Extremely preliminary notes - November 2021
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See also our attempt to further pin Artists' Books (and their near relatives) down: below (Artist’s book, Private press, Small press, or Livre d’artiste?)
Draft Workflow
Fixed Fields : most commonly cataloged as Monographic Book or Visual Materials format
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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).
On occasion, we have used our own Local list of genre terms, but usually for SCA only.
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
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