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AACR 2 and “graphic materials”: use for a descriptive catalogue for the Science Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Wendy Sheridan
Wendy Sheridan*
Affiliation:
Pictorial Collection, Science Museum, London
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Abstract

AACR2 encourages specialist and archival libraries to “use the rules as the basis of their cataloguing and augment their provisions as necessary.” Is this relevant to the needs of an image collection? What are the implications? The Science Museum has evolved a supplement to AACR2 to cope with visual materials of all kinds retained primarily for their documentary value, and the special needs of its users. A case study suggests how traditional descriptions of art works may metamorphese into computer-based systems such as those of the MDA and AACR2.

This article has developed from a contribution to the ARLIS/UK and LA course “The Image Library” at the Library Association on 20 February 1981. The views expressed are those of the author, and not necessarily those of the Science Museum.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , Winter 1981 , pp. 13 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1981 

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