On October 17, the Midwestern Art Cataloging Discussion Group held
its fall meeting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library in
conjunction with the fall meeting of ARLIS/Midstates. I would like to
thank Alba Fernadez and Terrie Wilson from ARLIS/Midstates for
organizing the ARLIS portions of the day and to thank Judy Dyki and
everyone at Cranbrook for hosting.
Below are the minutes from that meeting which will also shortly be
available on the group's website: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/midwestart
Midwestern Art Cataloging Discussion Group
7th Meeting
Hosted by the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
October 17, 2003
Attendees:
Angela Falsey, Art Institute of Chicago
Nathaniel Feis, Art Institute of Chicago
Alba Fernandez, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Nicole Finzer, student, Indiana University
Terry Kerby, University of Michigan
Marian Lambers, College for Creative Studies
Nancy Steffes, College for Creative Studies
Beth Walker, College for Creative Studies
The seventh meeting of the Midwest Art Cataloging Discussion Group
convened on Friday, October 17, 2003 at the Library of the Cranbrook
Academy of Art with welcomes and introductions by those in attendance.
Topic: Do you catalog comic books as serials or monographs?
At Ryerson, if a series of comic books has a single title, issue
numbers, or other characteristics of a serial, it is cataloged as a
serial. Those with individual titles are cataloged as monographs.
Checking the catalogs of other libraries with extensive holdings of
comics was suggested. It was also mentioned that RLIN has a lot of
copy for comics; checking OCLC's Worldcat was also suggested.
Topic: Do you catalog annual (biennial, triennial) exhibition
catalogs as serials or monographs?
At Ryerson, they are cataloged as monographs if they are individually
titled, feature named curators, or if they are catalogs from a small
part of a larger exhibition. If the catalogs have one title, obvious
numbering, and no individual distinguishing features, they are
cataloged as serials. At the Indianapolis Museum of Art, they are all
cataloged as monographs.
Topic: Do you have an online catalog or a database for your visual library?
The University of Michigan and the College for Creative Studies both
have databases.
Topic: Do faculty/curators try to dictate the location or
classification of your collection's resources (images or books)?
The difference between cataloging print and visual collections was
discussed. The cataloging of print collections differs from visual
collections in that print collection cataloging generally follows
more standards. Visual collection classification systems are usually
homegrown. Although many of those in attendance hear these requests
for different classification, and all keep the audience in mind when
classing items, visual resource libraries are in a better position to
accommodate patrons.
Topic: Are your slide collections digitizing?
The University of Michigan is digitizing images and migrating records
from an 18-year-old in-house database to a digital asset management
system. The entire collection won't be digitized, but they currently
have about 250,000 records. ARTstor has expressed an interest in
their digital image collection, but there are copyright issues to be
resolved. The College for Creative Studies is looking into embedding
images into their OPAC with Innovative Interfaces. It was noted that
Saskia is now only offering digital photos, and that Kodak will be
discontinuing its projectors. The Madison Digital Image Database was
recommended.
Topic: Is anyone switching from DDC 21 to 22?
Ryerson Library is presently still using DDC 21. Indianapolis Museum
of Art still uses an older edition of Dewey for consistency's sake.
No one else present is using Dewey. The merits and difficulties of
Dewey and LC classification systems were discussed briefly.
Topic: Subject headings: how do you handle 20th-21st century art?
University of Michigan has an "international file" for artists after
1945. The College for Creative Studies did away with geographic
divisions for artists for 20th century on. University of Michigan
does not use chronological subdivisions. Classing can almost be a
question of personal preference; subject headings can assure access,
especially in closed stack libraries. The difficulties of cataloging
works on non-Western or "non-traditional" arts were briefly discussed.
The next MACDG meeting is tentatively planned for January 2004. Any
librarians interested in hosting this meeting should contact
Nathaniel Feis at the Art Institute of Chicago ([log in to unmask] or
312-443-3526).
Notes by Angela Falsey
10/17/03
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Nathaniel Feis, Serials Librarian
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
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