Extremely preliminary notes - November 2021
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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 for SCA) https://rbms.info/vocabularies/index.shtml 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 PlusWeb, which makes it particularly useful with our subscription) https://classweb.org/ or in OCLC authority files (sca ge: artists' books)
On occasion, we have used made our own Local list of genre terms, usually for SCA items.
Selection of examples:
655 7 Artists’ 655 7 Artists’ books. |2 lcgft n ←in general, prefer lcgft for non-SCA items, if the term is 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
If Feel free to add more narrowly defined terms as well if such would be useful to patrons. And, if familiar with the Rare Books Thesauri for genre/form terms, feel free to add in more detailed genre/form terms as would be useful to a patron:.
655 7 Broadsides (Posters) |y 20th century. |2 lcgft
655 7 Accordion fold format (Binding) |z United States |y 20th century. |2 rbbin
655 7 Private press books (Publishing) |z United States |y 20th century. |2 rbpub
655 7 Livres d’artistes |2 rbgenr
655 7 Broadsides (Posters) |y 20th century. |2 lcgft
rbgenr
710 Name of the Press/Publisher
The name of the producer of the Artists book is useful to add to records, if missing. Sometimes it is difficult to find. If there is no publisher information for on or with the item, check the title in dealer’s catalogs; they will often have the publisher/press and other useful details listed.
710 2 Midnight Moon Press, |e publisher. ← check for authorized form, if available
Selection of training resources
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