> I am forwarding the following on behalf of Sherman Clarke.
>
>
Daniel Fermon
Assistant Librarian
Museum of Modern Art Library
11 W. 53rd Street
New York, N.Y.
(212) 708-9434
>
>
> Catalogers Discussion Group
> 10 September 2001, Bard Graduate Center
>
> Thirteen art catalogers gathered at Bard Graduate Center on September
> 10th. Attendance was a bit down because of short notice and Bard would
> be happy to host another CDG relatively soon. (The next day's terrorist
> attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have cast a pall on
> the days since the meeting.)
>
> Plans for the MoMA Library during the construction of the new building
> were discussed and led to a discussion on classification which may be the
> topic for a future meeting. The MoMA Library is scheduled to open in
> Queens in April 2002 and will probably be closed for some portion of the
> months just before that. While less reading space will be available, the
> library collection will all be together. The library will be in the
> Swingline building along with the collections, galleries, and store.
> Another building called "The Factory" will house curatorial and
> administrative offices. The buildings are about two blocks apart and are
> near a stop on the 7 train.
>
> New books in the collection have not been classified but are arranged by
> size and accession number. When the library moves back to Manhattan,
> only about half of the books collection will be brought back with the
> other half staying in Queens. Arrangement of the collection is being
> discussed and the idea of reclassifying has come up. Issues about
> (re)classifying vs. not include: browsability, recon, reprocessing
> (relabelling), using more standard tools like LCC. The MoMA artists
> files have been housed in Lektriever cabinets which will not be moved,
> with the files being moved to shelves which will go floor to ceiling.
> Volunteers have done the preparation and filing of artists files and the
> new arrangement will be more difficult.
>
> Several issues from the July meeting were discussed further:
>
> * For INSTALLATIONS (ART) and SITE-SPECIFIC ART and PERFORMANCE ART,
> there was general consensus that moveability was the primary factor in
> geographic subject analysis -- artist nationality vs. location of work.
> Someone suggested that students might know the location more readily than
> the artist and that the subject heading was important even though we
> might not add a topical heading to a work on the paintings of a single
> artist. The Watson Library uses its classification as a guide to
> national adjectives. As they are being trained for NACO, they will be
> looking at their authority practices, such as how much local information
> they will continue to include. Danny Fermon is still planning on
> preparing a letter to CPSO, with input from Susan Lentz.
>
> * "Interactive multimedia" is a difficult concept and maybe of limited
> usefulness. The discussion of its use in description segued into a
> discussion of INTERACTIVE as a subject term. Claudia Hill is seeing
> warrant for a topical heading for INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE; there is
> already a subject heading for INTERACTIVE ART. She was encouraged to
> send in a SACO proposal.
>
> * Maria Oldal reported that the Ex Libris list had been discussing field
> 563 for binding information. 563 does not appear in MARC 21 but does in
> UKMARC. As UKMARC is folded into MARC 21, some fields will probably get
> added to MARC 21 and this might be a candidate. Notes in 5XX have been
> given separate numbers if needed for display purposes, access, or control
> via indicators/subfields. Perhaps the description in 563 should be
> unsubfielded and access points (655, etc.) should be used for controlled
> access. Information about containers may also be relevant in 340 $e.
>
> * The Columbia catalogers wondered about the progress of the proposal to
> move buildings from SAF to NAF. Recently, they have had several chapels
> (as churches, they go in NAF) located in buildings (SAF). The ARLIS/NA
> Cataloging Advisory Committee is working on a new draft of the proposal.
>
> * Maria wondered about implementation of the anonymous artist
> relationship subfield $j which has been approved by MARBI. It will
> probably be in the next implementation when LC, OCLC, and RLIN do that.
>
> The next meeting is likely to be hosted by the Frick Art Reference
> Library and will happen in the Walnut Room in the Collection building.
> Possible date: 15 October 2001. Suggested topics for discussion:
> classification and reclassification; adding Blackwell's contents records
> to your database (granularity, summary, contents, keyword Google-like
> access); closed vs. open stacks and the effect on technical services.
>
> Notes compiled by Sherman Clarke, [log in to unmask]
>
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