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• 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

• 337 video ǂb v ǂ2 rdamedia

• 338 volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier

• 338 video disc ǂb vd 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

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• 245 10 Spring opens the mountain green : ǂb a poem for Yosemite ; with a quote by John Muir / ǂc Peter and Donna Thomas.

• 500 One-of-a-kind artist’s book.

• 500 Four original watercolor paintings of named locations in Yosemite on handmade paper, mounted on double leaves, accompanied by text or maps on alternating leaves. Lettering in black, with illumination in blue and green.

• 500 Nested double-leaved accordion-fold book; endpapers attached to bound covers, double leaves not attached to spine; marbled paper strips woven into page edges. Covers bound in brown leather with colored leather inlays depicting mountain landscape, front and back. Issued in blue-grey paper-covered clamshell box with watercolor title label mounted on top.

500     Limitation Statement

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, signatures, etc.

500 “Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by artist.”–Colophon.

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590 Utah State University Library has number 12/20; library’s copy not datedsigned.

590 Utah State University Special Collections and Archives has number 12. ←for SCA items.

Subject and Genre fields

Artist’s book, Private press, Small press, or Livre d’artiste?

• Artists books are produced by artists and intended as visual art objects; they often play with the form or idea of a book.

• Small press are put out by a small press and finely produced (handmade paper, etc.) with runs of less than 500 (but can at same time be an Artist’s book). May also be called a “Fine Press” book.

• Private press is a “guy in a garage” (but can also be used to produce an Artist’s book) Privately printed is something printed for an individual (old rare books, not usually a 20^th century thing).           for an Artist’s book)

• Livre d’artiste is an overlapping term for books containing collections of original works of art, usually printed directly from a source created by the artist themselves, rather than from a source that was created by a technician from the artist's design. Originated in France around the turn of the 20th century.

• However: if an artist states that the item is an Artist’s Book, then catalog it as an Artist’s Book

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• Library of Congress Genre and Format Terms: https://classweb.org/ or OCLC Authority Files (search term ge)

  • Generally, prefer lcgft for ABR items, unless the term does not exist in there, or another thesaurus has a better descriptive genre/form term. Use cataloger’s judgement.

• RBMS Rare Books Thesaurus (often used in SCA) https://rbms.info/vocabularies/index.shtml

  • When constructing RBMS terms, use the individual thesaurus as a parenthetical qualifier (except for RBMS Genre);

  • We have been subdividing these with place and/or time, but RBMS would prefer we don’t.

Accordion fold format (Binding) ǂ2 rbbin

Bark papers (Paper) ǂ2 rbpap

Adhesive bindings (Binding) ǂ2 rbbin

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/ Can be used when the above thesauri don’t have the term.

• FAST genre (and other fast) headings:

  • We leave in all OCLC fast genre headings, just as we leave in other OCLC FAST headings, but we don’t require catalogers to assign them to original records. However, if you do want to add FAST headings; this handy site will generate FAST headings at all once from entire block of copy/pasted 650/655 fields: https://fast.oclc.org/lcsh2fast/ The converter will add an initial ǂa to the new FAST fields, but they will disappear once you validate the record in OCLC.

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    But FAST headings are not required for original cataloging.

Genre/Form examples from various thesauri:

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 Coptic bindings (Binding) ǂz United States ǂy 20th century. ǂ2 rbbin

655 7 Conceptual art (general art genre) ǂ2aat

• Mixed 650 and 655 lgft & fast headings in the same record:

  • 650 0 Artists' books |v Specimens.

  • 650 7Artists' books.ǂ2 fast ǂ0 (OCoLC)fst00817660

  • 655 7Specimens. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 (OCoLC)fst01423861

  • 655 7 Artists' books |y 20th century. |2 lcgft

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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 on or with the item, check the title in dealer’s catalogs; they will often have the publisher/press and other useful details listed. Sometimes this will be the artist themselves (in which case, they may have the relator term of |e book artist).

• 710 2 Midnight Moon Press, |e publisher. ← check authority record for form, if available

Art Book Room Sierra codes, Locations, and labels:

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949 Automatic item creation field

949 N 7433.4 . call number ǂi barcode ǂl iab ǂt 6 ← Basic ABR 949 field

949 N 7433.4 . call number ǂi barcode ǂl iabov ǂt 6 ← ABR oversize

949 N 7433.4 . call number ǂi barcode ǂl ialoc ǂt 6 ← ABR case and ABR case oversize

907 Overlay Sierra Bibliographic Record field

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909 Jane Doe|b2021-10-03|cEDIT|dCMS STATS|eISSUE: 520 ADDED ← Sierra Bib Record Edit

Selection of training resources

• Lewis, N., McCormack, A., Skeen, B., Wiederhold, R. (2019, May 15). Beyond Books: Cataloging Special
  Format Items [Pre-conference training workshop]. Utah Library Association Annual Conference, Sandy, UT

  • USU Digital Commons copy here: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1143&context=lib_present – see slides 36-66 for Cataloging Artists’ Books by Allison McCormack.

• Opening Artists' Books to the User: an example with potential approaches / Ann K.D. Myers and William Andrews Myers, 2014.

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