Classification exercises
"SUBJECT CATALOGING FIRST AID FOR ART LIBRARIANS"
31 March 2001
ARLIS/NA annual conference, Los Angeles, Calif.

The dozen books listed here pose some classification issues that were analyzed during the subject cataloging workshop. The main role of classification is to place books next to topical siblings. Some of the books invite choices on appropriate classfication numbers; others pretty much fit in one position. There is no universal right answer (though we might agree on some of these). The first answer below is generally the one seen on cataloging copy. The cutter for main entry is asterisked and any cuttering scheme could be used.

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XX secolo / [tekeningen en ontwerp = drawings and design, Claudie de Cleen]. -- [Amsterdam : s.n.], 1996 (Amsterdam, Holland : Drukkerij Industrie BV) N.B. an artist's book

1. N7433.4.C55 A72 1996 for artists books by artist (1st cutter for artist; 2nd cutter for individual titles in A7-Z6 with XX filed as a number before letters, according to ALA filing rules)

2. N6953.C55 A4 1996 for Dutch artists (N6501-7414 for art by country according to table N5, Netherlands is 431-453 with 453 for special artists; 1st cutter for artist; 2nd cutter from table N6 for reproductions, or you could do A35 for writings or you could do A62 for individual works of art by title)

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"The art that is life" : the arts & crafts movement in America, 1875-1920 / by Wendy Kaplan ... -- Boston : Little, Brown, c1987.

1. NK1141 .K37* 1987 for history of U.S. arts & crafts movement

2. any other numbers?? ceramics history at Alfred? or architecture??

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Correggio and Parmigianino : master draughtsmen of the Renaissance / Carmen C. Bambach ... -- London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 2000.

1. NC257.C-- B* 2000 for Correggio (NC101-377 for drawing by country N3; 155-157 for Italy; 3-number country with 3rd number for artist)

2. NC257.P-- B* for Parmiginino

3. NC255 for Italian drawing (no chronological breakdown) (1st number under NC101-377 for Italy in general)

4. NC85 .B* for Renaissance drawing (without national breakdown)

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Eakins and the photograph : works by Thomas Eakins and his circle in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / [edited by] Susan Danly and Cheryl Leibold ... -- Washington : Published for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.

1. TR652 .P46* 1994 for collections of photographs

2. TR140.E-- * or TR647.E-- * for Eakins as photographer

3. ND237.E-- * with Eakins overall (or special monograph scheme like N44 or NJ18) - ND201-1114 for painting by country N5; 37 for special artists in U.S.

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Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert / edited by Margaret Heilbrun ... -- New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.

1. NA737.G5 A4 2000 with Gilbert as architect - NA701-1614 for architecture by country N5; 37 for special architects in U.S.

2. NA735.N-- I* with New York City architecture - NA701-1614 for architecture by country N5; 35 for special cities in U.S.

3. NA6232 .I* with U.S. skyscrapers - there's a breakdown for special buildings but not for cities in NA6233

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Lesbian art in America : a contemporary history / Harmony Hammond. -- New York : Rizzoli ; London : Troika, 2000.

1. NX650.H6 H36* 2000 for homosexuality as a special subject in the arts

2. N72.H64 H36* 2000 for homosexuality and the visual arts (where you get from index in N)

3. N8217.H-- H* for homosexuality in the visual arts - no cutter given but could be added (I have usually been quite open to setting up a new cutter in areas like this but remember that you might better use a broader or related category than getting a group of 1)

4. NX164 for classes of artists (not just visual artists) - no cutter given for homosexual or lesbian but you could do it

5. NX512.3 for ethnic groups of U.S. artists?? - LC only uses this for ethnic groups

6. N8356 or N6538 same for overall or U.S. but LC uses only for ethnic groups

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Making mischief : Dada invades New York / Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn ... -- New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996.

1. N6535.N5 N32* 1996 with art in New York City

2. N6512.5.D3 N32* 1996 with Dadaism in the U.S.

3. N6494.D3 N32* 1996 with Dadaism in general - special movements, A-Z, in 20th century

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New York to Hollywood : the photography of Karl Struss / Barbara McCandless, Bonnie Yochelson, Richard Koszarski ... -- Fort Worth, Tex. : Amon Carter Museum ; Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, c1995.

1. TR653 .M39* 1995 for collections of photographs before 1950

2. TR140.S-- M39* 1995 for Struss as photographer

3. TR647.S-- M39* 1995 for Struss as artistic photographer in exhibition

4. NYC or Hollywood as setting??

5. Amon Carter had the Struss archive, might do something museum-oriented

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Site for the future : a short history of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, 1895-1995 / John Jansen van Galen & Huib Schreurs. -- Naarden [Netherlands] : V + K Publishing, c1995.

1. N2463 .J36* 1995 in museum sequence - N510-3990 for museums by country and individual museums; cuttered from N9 for author because museum is not main entry

2. N6488.N4 A-- 1995 for 20th century art, museums outside U.S. by country (N4 for Netherlands) and city (A-- for Amsterdam) (N6487 is U.S. museums by city and museum so you get higher breakdown for U.S. places; you can do the same depth of "cuttering" but it may result in more complicated and longer cutters)

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Slow space / edited by Michael Bell and Sze Tsung Leong. -- New York : Monacelli Press, 1998. N.B. "That the configuration of the contemporary city has transcended the realm of idealized geometry is by now an obvious fact -- yet surprisingly, one largely unheeded by an architectural and urban practice which still clings to the removed, visual techniques of formal composition" (from the foreword)

1. HT151 .S49 1998 for city planning in sociology

2. NA9031 .S49* 1998 for city planning in architecture

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Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau / edited by Jennifer Sigler ... -- New York : Monacelli Press, c1995.

1. NA1153.K64 S63 1995 for Koolhaas - NA701-1614 for architecture by country (431-453 is Netherlands with 453 for architects by name)

2. NA2500 for architectural theory

3. NA680 for 20th-century architecture

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Vermeer and the Delft school / Walter Liedtke ... -- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

1. N6946.5.D45 L54* 2001 for Delft school as special aspect of 17th-century Dutch art

2. ND646.5.D45 L54* 2001 for Delft school as special aspect of 17th-century Dutch painting

3. N6951.D45 L54* 2001 for art in special cities in Netherlands

4. ND651.D45 L54* 2001 for painting in special cities in Netherlands

5. ND653.V-- L-- 2001 with Vermeer or ND653.V-- A4 2001 (2nd cutter for pictorial works which LC might do)

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If you have questions about these exercises, please contact Sherman Clarke at sherman.clarke@gmail.com.


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