Extremely preliminary notes - November 2021
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The item’s primary content is non-textual
The item is a deck of cards, kit, 3D object, or other non-book format
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These categories are fluid:
Use cataloger’s judgment
For original cataloging, use another format if it better suits the Artist’s book
Also, don’t completely redo another catalogers judgement when copy cataloging
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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 makes it particularly useful).
On occasion, we have used our own Local list of genre terms, usually for SCA items.
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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650 0 Artists' books |v Specimens.
650 7 Artists' books. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 (OCoLC)fst00817660
655 7 Specimens. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 (OCoLC)fst01423861
655 7 Artists' books |y 20th century. |2 lcgft
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710 2 Midnight Moon Press, |e publisher. ← check for authorized form, if available
Selection of training resources
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