Extremely preliminary notes - November 2021
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$e engraver
$e lithographer
$e papermaker
$e printer
$e publisher
Item-level:
$e binder
3xx Description and format fields
Can be difficult to describe, especially more unusual formats. The rarer aspects of the Artist’s book can be obscured by brief 300’s. Give lots of detail in the 500 Artefactual details notes (see below)
300 Concise physical description
it can be difficult to describe concisely artists' books. Add more 500 notes to give more details.
245 10 Biosphere.
300 1 volume (unpaged) ; ǂc 12 x 9 x 3 cm + ǂe 4 sphere books + custom box (24 x 11 x 6 cm)
500 "Box divided into two sections by wooden piece. Sections contain coptic bound book on left side and four wooden spheres with accordion books on right side ... Spheres measure 1.5" diameter with each a different color. Each sphere is halved to contain an accordion structure book and has a magnetic closure"--Vamp & Tramp website, viewed on September 30, 2019.
336/337/338 fields format/type - add more 33x terms for other formats, as needed.
245 10 Celsius 233 / ǂc Philip Zimmermann.
300 40 unnumbered pages : ǂb illustrations, ǂc 17 x 23 cm ǂe 1 Blu-ray HD DVD in box.
336 text ǂb txt ǂ2 rdacontent
336 still image ǂb sti ǂ2 rdacontent
336 two-dimensional moving image ǂb tdi ǂ2 rdacontent
337 unmediated ǂb n ǂ2 rdamedia
338 volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier
500 "[H]andbound using a multi-needle coptic stitch with sewn-on hard covers made of acid-free solid-core black museum board. The paper is acid-free Pop-Tone French Paper. The images are printed using archival inkjet ink with three-color foil stamping on the cover, the title page and back cover. The interior flame sheets are loose-inserted in a slot in each interior folio. It is printed in a signed and numbered edition of 50 and comes in an acid-free phase box. A DVD is included with a one-channel video that can be used to create a viewing environment"--Publication information sheet
500 Artefactual details
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500 “Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by artist.”–Colophon.
500 Sphere books signed and dated. Coptic bound book signed and numbered by the artist.
590 Number our library owns:
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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 (for SCA) https://rbms.info/vocabularies/index.shtml or the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, but there are also many newer sources available, such as Library of Congress Genre and Format Terms (available in Classification Web, which makes it particularly useful with our subscription) https://classweb.org/ or in OCLC authority files (sca ge: artists' books)
On occasion, we have made used our own Local list lists of genre terms, usually for SCA items.
Selection of examples:
655 7 Artists’ books. |2 lcgft ←in general, prefer lcgft for non-SCA items, if the term exists in there
But our older or SCA records might have:
655 7 Artists' books. |2 rbgenr
OR:
655 7 artists' books (books) |2 aat ← Art and Architecture Thesaurus
We do not need three identical 655 fields for the same term, but we can have 650/655 combos in the same record. Also, we are leaving in all OCLC fast subject headings even though they duplicate the 650 terms (by their very nature as a LCSH-derived list)
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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