CISSIG NewsAuthor(s): Deborah BooneSource: Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 1,No. 5 (October 1982), p. 144Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27946984 .

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144 Art Documentation, October, 1982

costs $16.00 (pbk). and is published by the Bell Gallery of Brown University, the Rhode Island Historical Society, and the Museum of

Art, Rhode Island School of Design. A Florence M. Jumonville has written The Vieux Carr? Survey which describes the collection of drawings and other materials on buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The collection is housed at the Historic New Orleans Collection and the booklet (31 pp., 1981) is available without charge from the Collection (533 Royal St., New

Orleans, LA 70130). Also of interest is the 29-page Guide to Research at the Historic New Orleans Collection (2nd ed., 1980). A Woonerf is a word to know. The Dutch Royal Touring Club pub lished a 32-page book on the concept in 1980. A woonerf is a residen tial area where vehicular traffic is severely limited. The word may pass into English unchanged; see "A Woonerful Idea" (New York

Times, June 28, 1982, p. B3). A The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen out bid Historic Annapolis for the Brice House, a 35-room 18th-century house in Annapolis (AP news item dated April 26, 1982). The Union plans to convert it to a museum.

edited by Deborah Boone

NEWS FROM LC According to Lucia Rather, LC has decided to input series in the

MARC Authorities format. It is projected that the first series authority records will be distributed early in 1983.

This pattern was suggested in answer to a query about indirect

geographical subdivision practice under AACR 2 for the Greek is lands:

1) Pottery in Rhodes city on Rhodes island: Pottery?Greece?Rhodes (Rhodes [Greece] established by De

scriptive Cataloging Division according to AACR 2) 2) Pottery on Rhodes island:

Pottery?Greece?Rhodes (Island) (Rhodes [Greece : Island] established in Subject Cataloging Division according to AACR 2)

Crete established in DCD as Crete with no qualifer. It was handled by DCD because it is an administrative division of Greek government. If

you have Minoan pottery from Knossos then the headings should be:

1) Pottery, Minoan?Greece?Knossos

2) Knossos (Ancient city) (new way to establish ancient cities) 3) Crete?Antiquities

QUESTIONS?? AND ANSWERS AQ: LCRI 7.IBI (CSB 13, p. 15) states that "When credits for performer... 'presenter,' etc., precede or follow the title in the chief source, in general do not consider them as part of the title proper, even

though the language used integrates the credits with the title." Could this interpretation be applied to other media, specifically to the titles of the many exhibition catalogs that begin with a similar introductory phrase, e.g., "Wildenstein presents Ten Americans from Pace?"

("Ten Americans from Pace" is the title of the exhibition) A: LC's Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy replies: It would be rather dangerous to apply this RI for exhibiton catalogs, for the cases are rather different. In the case of applying 7.IBI, one is cataloging a motion picture (for example) and that picture's title is obscured by the title frames...In this case, one is cataloging the book called, according to the title page, "Wildenstein presents Ten...," not the exhibition itself. A Q: AACR 2 does not instruct us to transpose other title information to make the title/statement of authorship area read more smoothly. Should we follow the title page as closely as possible, or can we

rearrange things? Should one state the title

Masuhr: [Ausstellung] vom 14.7.-27.8.1978, Bilder, Zeich

nungen, Gedichte, or Masuhr: Bilder, Zeichnungen, Gedichte : [Ausstellung] vom

14.7-27.8.1978 A: The Descriptive Cataloging Division of LC states: The rules are not too concerned about transposing provided one doesn't meddle with the character string before the colon. Generally, other title infor mation should be ordered as on the title page (cf, 1. 1E2). But doesn't this question arise simply because "Ausstellung" is bracketed? The best solution would be not to do that?not so much to solve the

ordering problem as because to library users (other than catalogers) the words "Austeilung" could not refer to anything other than an exhibition.

Q: If one is tracing a place of exhibition which isn't a corporate body (i.e., a building or a park) is it a subject heading (650), when it doesn't function as a subject of the work, or, an added entry (710), when it's not corporate? Neither one seems correct. Is there a conven tional way to handle these?

A: According to LC the situtation is somewhat ambiguous. One is

using a "non-established" name as an added entry (roman numeral

type). Nevertheless, use an added entry (710) when it looks like a corporate heading. AQ: Is Penn State University in State College, Pa., or in University Park, Pa.? Is Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif, or in Stanford, Calif.? Apparently, each University is served by its own Post Office.

University Park and Stanford are the names of the post offices, not the names of places. So, they are appropriate in addresses, but the univer sities are actually located in State College and Palo Alto, respectively. Is it proper to set up such a Post Office name in a heading? LC card no. 81-8347 (an AACR 2 record) has: Paul R. Hanna House

(Stanford, Calif.) and LC's Name Authority File on microfiche has Stanford (Calif.). If Stanford were thought of as part of Palo Alto, wouldn't the headings be Paul R. Hanna House (Stanford, Palo

Alto, Calif.) and Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.)? A: LC determines these start out as only sub-stations of the P.O. but become places. Imprints on books, statements in Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Collier's all bear this out. Not to mention the fact that treating them as places on the basis of the

way they appear and are used is the easiest thing for the cataloger to do.

LC CHANGES A Studies in Italian Art and Architecture, 15th through 18th cen

turies, edited by Henry A. Mill?n (LC card no. 79-14746). The record is being revised by LC to include added title page

information which states this work is part of the series "Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome." This volume will also be

recataloged as an analytic, because the "Memoirs" are cataloged as a serial. A Correction initiated on LC Authority records n80033901, n80033902, and n80033903.

The history note informantion is incorrect?the Fort Worth Art Center was not the first name for the institution, but the second; in 1910 it was founded as the Forth Worth Museum of Art, and a number

of works were published under this name. A "Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ancient Bronzes, Ceramics, and Seals (LC card no. 81-1270).

The form subdivision ' 'Exhibitions

' ' in all five subject headings is

incorrect. This is a catalog of a permanent collection in the Los

Angeles County Museum of Art. The subdivision will be changed to "Catalogs."

LITERATURE A "Online Catalogs" by Jaye Bausser, RTSD Newsletter, July/ August 1982. A "AACR2: The First Anniversary! Celebration or Lament?" by Franklyn F. Bright, Technicalities, June 1982. A "'Why' Comes before 'How': Planning for Automation in the Real World" by Ellen G. Miller, Technicalities, June 1982. A "The Rise and Fall and Rise of RLG" by Joel Shurkin, American Libraries July/August 1982, details the causes behind RLIN's techni cal problems during the past few years and explains why there is reason for optimism in the future.

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