CISSIGAuthor(s): Deborah BooneSource: Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 2,No. 3/4 (Summer 1983), pp. 99-100Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27947138 .

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New York from April through July 1983. The drawings dated from an anonymous 15th-century tower design to the work of Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. The catalog accompanying the show is in the same format as the Rizzoli RIBA drawings series {Great Drawings from the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects by Jill Lever and Margaret Richardson, London: Trefoil Books; New York: Rizzoli,

1983. $15.00 paper). The new Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia

University has been given a $5-million endowment by Temple Hoyne Buell, a Denver architect/developer, and has been named in his honor. The Buell Center was inaugurated by a symposium in April 1983 and an exhibition of photographs. The exhibition, organized by John Zukowski of the Art Institute of Chicago and others, is arranged by region and will travel under the auspices of the AIA Foundation, (cf.

New York Times, April 21, 1983, p. C15 on Buell grant; April 28, 1983, p. C12 on symposium)

"Washington Irving, Sunny side, and American Romanticism" were

the subjects of a symposium held April 30 and May 1 in Tarry town, N.Y. Speakers included several on architecture as well as those on

Irving, literature and the other arts.

READING The architectural legacy of Thomas Jefferson is the subject of Mary

Lee Settle's "Mr. Jefferson's World" (New York Times Magazine "The Sophisticated Traveler," March 13,1983, p. 122 ff.). The essay is

accompanied by some beautiful photographs by Langdon Clay from a forthcoming book by William Howard Adams (Jefferson's Monacello, Abbeville Press). Also appended are some touring hints.

Architectural imitation is the subject of an essay by Joseph Giovan nini ("Architectural Imitation: Is It Plagiarism?" New York Times, March 17,1983, p. Cl ff.). While architects have always looked to the past for inspiration for new buildings, there are currently several cases

pending in which one architect is accusing another of something more than inspiration, something more like plagiarism. The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York is

going through a reorganizing period. IAUS is moving, staff changes are happening, and Skyline is being suspended (again!). Peter Lemos outlines the history and changes in "The Triumph of the Quill" (Village Voice, May 3, 1983, p. 98 ff.). The Association of Architecture School Librarians met in Santa Fe in

March and the Association of Architectural Librarians met in New Orleans in May. AASL is associated with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. AAL is associated with the American Institute of Architects. Reports of both meetings are scheduled to appear in a future column.

CISSIG edited by Deborah Boone

Please contact Ruta Butkus Marino (Cleveland Museum of Art

Library, 11150 East Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44106), the CISSIG Mod erator, if you have attended the RTSD/LC/CRG Regional Institute on Library of Congress Subject Headings and/or the RTSD/LC/CRG Re gional Institute on Authorities, with a brief indication of your overall evaluation of the session (RLIN users are welcome to send their comments via the on-line mail system).

QUESTIONS?? AND ANSWERS Daniel Starr (Museum of Modern Art Library) checked the annual

reports from 1952-1971 for "that confusing corporate body in Glas gow" which appears to be three different bodies with four different names:

Parent body: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums (earlier form) [NB: museums, plural] Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries (later form)

Subordinate body (the museum itself): Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum [NB: museum, singular]

Related body: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums Association LC's headings for the parent body (pre-AACR2) are:

Glasgow. Art Gallery and Museums

Glasgow. Museums and Art Galleries Dept. Variant forms of the name for the museum are:

Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow City Art Gallery. This query was submitted by Dan to LC: The Library of Congress authority record for Vladimir

Mayakowsky (LCRN 79-21383-A) gives his birthdate as 1894 with out giving any indication of the source for choosing that year. While there is some confusion over the year of his birth, the overwhelming majority of material gives his birthdate as 1893. Could this be investi gated more thoroughly? Some other cases of conflicting dates are

Carlos M?rida and Abraham Walkowitz. The Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy replies:

"The examples submitted are for retrospective records that lack the

supporting documentation for the date selected. In all the cases cited, our pre-automated name authority records for these persons contain extensive documentation relating to the dates. In general, we are interested in receiving copies of evidence from printed sources con

tradicting a date appearing in our heading. As time permits, we will examine our authority record and add the information if it does not

already appear there. "With regard to the birth date for Mayakovsky, our pre-automated

name authority record also documents his own statement that he was born in either 1894 or 1893. This record also cites the many sources that use 1893, those that use 1894, and those that give both dates.

"According to our authority record for M?rida, the 1893 birth date appears in his 1937 Modern Mexican Artists, in a 1930's exhibition catalog of his works, and in the 1935 Who's Who in Latin America. This record also documents the 1891 date from Meynier's 1966 Mexico,

A to Z. "The 1880 birth date for Walkowitz (according to our authority

record) appears in the 1927 Who's Who in Art, in the 1947 Who's Who in American Art, and Who Was Who in America, 1961-1968. Sawin's 1915 Abraham Walkowitz says that he was born in either 1878 or 1880.

"Naturally, we are reluctant to change a date that has appeared on our catalog records for many years. Nevertheless, we are willing to do so whenever modern scholarship explicitly and conclusively disproves the date we are using." Ruta Butkus Marino (Cleveland Museum of Art Library) also made

several queries to LC and received the following answers:

Folded matter in the physical description area: '4 AACR2 is consider

able more restrictive in the use of the term 'folded' in the physical description area than previous rules, with only rules 2.5B 11 and 2.5D4 dealing with the problem as it relates to books. We have by examples extended slightly the application of 2.5B11:

122 p. on folded leaves 23 p. of plates (some on folded leaves)

In the second element of the physical description area it is not possible to use the term 'folded'. Information about folded illustrative matter

must appear in notes. In addition to the example given in rule 2.5C7 one can imagine a situation in which the following is applicable:

: ill., 24 maps Note: Five maps on folded leaves."

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Establishing Japanese cities which have the same name as a higher level political jurisdiction: "With regard to Japanese cities, we use the form that includes the suffix '-shen' in all cases in which systematic romanization of the name is used. For the very few for which an English form of name is used, notably Tokyo and Kyoto, the suffix is omitted. Thus 'Nara-shi (Japan)

' serves as the model for a very high percentage

of Japanese cities."

LITERATURE Foster, Donald L. Managing the Catalog Department. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982.

Allen, Kimberly G. "Micros at Michigan: Developing Computer Literacy in the Library Staff," Technicalities (March 1983). Matthews, Joseph R. "The Automated Library System Marketplace, 1982: Change and More Change!

" Library Journal (March 15,1983).

"OCLC Copyrights Data Base; Member Libraries Unsure of Ramifi cations," Advanced Technology/Libraries (February 1983).

"Head of Cataloging Departments Discussion Group Meeting," LC

Information Bulletin (March 14, 1983). "Suggestions for the Teaching of Cataloging," Technicalities (April 1983).

SERIALS SIG edited by Margot Grier

FURNITURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICALS

The following list of 45 periodicals includes the outstanding titles for studying the history of, and contemporary developments in, furniture and interior design. It is international in scope, with a U.S. and Western

European emphasis, and covers only journals published currently. In this list, the publisher given is usually the current one. An attempt has been made to indicate art periodical indexes in which the various periodicals have been indexed. The indexes, with abbreviations are:

A.D.P.: Art/Design/Photo Art I.: Art Index ARTbib. curr.: ARTbiblio graphie s current titles ARTbib. mod.: ARTbiblio graphie s modern Bull. sig. 525: Bulletin signal?tique 525: Pr?histoire Bull. sig. 526: Bulletin signal?tique 526: Art et

arch?ologie-Proche Orient, Asie, Am?rique R?p.: R?petoire d'art et d'arch?ologie

The annotations describing the content and format of the periodicals are

applicable only to their present form.

Periodical Publications Devoted Exclusively to Furniture Furniture history : the journal of the Furniture History Society (The

Society). London, 1965 A scholarly annual devoted to furniture of all periods, with an emphasis on Britain. Well illustrated, with signed book reviews, and a very useful "Select list of articles on furniture published in art

journals and periodicals and of books published." ARTbib. curr., ARTbib. mod., R?p.

The Antique furniture newsletter (Clinton R. Ho well and David D.

Howell). Bedford Hills, New York, [1981?] Bimonthly. Directed to collectors, decorators, and antique dealers. Includes sections on furniture maintenance, restoration, and conser

vation, and short book reviews. Its "Photo Reference Index" in cludes photographs of antiques appearing in the advertisements and articles of the "major" antiques magazines and auction house

catalogs and lists antiques-related articles in the same publications. Mobilia: international design magazine (Mobilia Press ApS). Snek

kersten, Denmark, 1955 8 times a year. U.S. text in Danish and English. Most articles about

contemporary furniture. Book reviews. Art I.

Authoritative Fine and Decorative Arts Periodicals Which Include Regular Articles About Furniture

Antiques: a magazine for collectors and amateurs (Straight Enter

prises). New York, 1922

Monthly. Authoritative articles primarily devoted to American de corative arts before 1900. Excellent illustrations and signed book reviews. Covers museum acquisitions and current exhibitions. Art I.

(1969-), ARTbib. curr., ARTbib. mod.; Antiques own published index covers 1922-1971.

Connoisseur (National Magazine Co.) London, 1901

Monthly. Scholarly articles along with news of sales and signed book reviews by well-known authorities. A.D.P., Art I., ARTbib. curr., ARTbib. mod., R?p. ; Connoisseur's own published indexing covers

1901-1909. Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1890-1940 England. (The

Society). Brighton, Sussex, England, [196-?] Annual. Specialized, scholarly articles on the decorative arts in

Europe, America, and Great Britain 1890-1940. Winterthur portfolio: a journal of American material culture (Univer

sity of Chicago Press for the Henry Francis du Pont Museum). Chicago, 1964 3 times a year. Scholarly journal with interdisciplinary articles on American "artifacts" to 1900. Well illustrated with signed book reviews. ARTbib. curr., ARTbib. mod., R?p.

Authoritative Fine and Decorative Arts Periodicals Which Include Occasional Articles About Furniture

Apollo: the magazine of the arts (Apollo Magazine). London, 1925 Monthly. Scholarly journal which includes excellent illustrations and signed book reviews. News of exhibition and sales. A.D. P., Art

I., ARTbib. curr., ARTbib. mod., R?p.

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