ART CATALOGING
and other matters, professional and personal,
collected by Sherman Clarke

ARLIS/NA

Art cataloging discussion papers, etc.

• anonymous artist relationships (draft discussion paper) (MARBI Discussion paper 115) (MARBI Proposal 2000-04)
• arranging artist monographs - a discussion on ARLIS-L, March-April 2000
• Artists files revealed: documentation and access from the ARLIS/NA Artist Files Working Group, 2008
  • Best practices for cataloging artist files using MARC
  • LC DCM C14: Collection-level cataloging
• British Library guidelines for exhibition and art catalogues in RDA
• buildings as name headings
  • draft proposal, 14 April 2000, with discussion points
  • draft LCRI, 2002
  • for later discussions, see reports of SAC Bldgs TF on ALA reports page
  • presentation for SACO At Large, Midwinter 2006
• Cataloging exhibition publications: best practices (ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee) (separate chapters on Title and statement of responsibility, Assigning subject and genre/form headings, Notes, and Name/title access points)
• CCO: "On the cataloging of cultural objects" for LILRC 4th Symposium on Digitization, August 2006
• classifying art photography
  • summary of ARLIS-L discussion, April 1999
  • new edition of NH classification for art photography (2005) [PDF]
• Corpus vasorum antiquorum: LC set up pattern for CVA in Cataloging service bulletin 121 (spring 1977), p. 11
• issues in art cataloging (first prepared for library school course at Queens College taught by Joy Kestenbaum, summer 2000)
• LCSH revised art headings
  • LC proposal, August 1999
  • LC revised memos H 1148 and H 1250 (effective 1 Feb. 2001; check SCM:SH for latest version of these memos)
  • LCSH weekly lists of new and revised headings
  • presentation for Authority Control Interest Group, ALA Midwinter 2002
  • examples of revisions submitted by NYC art catalogers
  • message from CPSO about form vs. topical subdivision --Art
• uniform titles for named works of art (AACR2 and LC rule interpretations)
• uniform titles for unnamed works of art (draft discussion paper)
• visual resources & VRA reports

Catalogers Discussion Group (New York, N.Y.)

Metadata &c. &c.

Queer Caucus for Art (an affiliated society of the College Art Association)
now known as Queer & Trans Caucus for Art; formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Caucus

• newsletter

Other art and library associations

• Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL)
• College Art Association (CAA)
• Core, a division of the American Library Association
• Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC)
• Society for Commercial Archeology
• Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
  • New York Metropolitan Chapter
• Visual Materials Section, Society of American Archivists
• Visual Resources Association (VRA)