Graphic
Materials
Graphic
Materials: Rules for Describing
Original Items and Historical
Collections was compiled
by Elisabeth Betz Parker in 1982
to provide guidelines for cataloging
a wide variety of visual materials
from photographic prints, negatives,
and albums to posters, cartoons,
popular and fine prints, and architectural
drawings. These rules are
a national standard supplement
to Chapter 8 of the Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules, which
focuses on modern, published audiovisual
materials.
For groups of pictures as well
as individual items, the guidelines
cover transcribing and devising
titles; stating creators, producers,
and dates; expressing quantities,
media, and dimensions; and writing
subject, user advisory, and other
kinds of notes. There are
also sample catalog records, a
glossary, and an index.
Second Edition is Underway
In 2008, the
ACRL/RBMS Bibliographic Standards
Committee agreed to develop a second
edition of Graphic Materials as part
of the Descriptive Cataloging of
Rare Materials suite. It will provisionally
be known as "Descriptive Cataloging
of Rare
Materials (Graphics)," or DCRM(G).
The Library of Congress Cataloging
Policy and Support Office (CPSO) has
expressed support of this change. A
preliminary team is now comparing "Graphic
Materials" and DCRM(B) point for
point, noting differences and similarities.
This work-in-progress can be seen at
http://dcrmg.pbwiki.com.
The goal is to
have a full comparison in place by
June 2008, in time for the Bibliographic
Standards Committee to name an editorial
team at the ALA 2008 Annual Conference.
The preliminary team consists of:
Erin Blake (Curator of Art & Special Collections, Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC),
Mary Mundy (Cataloger, Pictorial Collections,
Prints & Photographs Division,
Library of Congress), and Helena Zinkham
(Acting Chief, Prints & Photographs
Division, Library of Congress). If
you would like to volunteer for, or
nominate someone to, the DCRM(G) editorial
team, please contact Erin Blake <EBlake@FOLGER.edu> or
Randal Brandt <rbrandt@library.berkeley.edu>. |
Graphic Materials is available
in several formats. There are cumulated
update versions (1997) as well as
separate update pages to supplement the
1982 printed volume with examples in
MARC content designation.
(Note: You must have the Adobe Acrobat
Reader installed on your computer to
view and print the PDF files. The Adobe
Acrobat Reader is available for free
from Adobe
Systems Incorporated.)
- Adobe
Acrobat PDF File (1997
version; ca. 3.3 MB; 174 pages)
- Word Processing files:
- Update
Pages in Adobe Acrobat PDF file (1996-1997;
optional, additional rules for expressing
dates and physical description;
terminology that conforms with terms
in the 1995 edition of the Thesaurus
for Graphic Materials (e.g,.
negatives instead of photonegatives);
a concordance for MARC fields; and
eleven new examples of cataloging
with MARC codes; ca. 150 KB; 30
p.).
- Cataloger's
Desktop (1997 version; published by the Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress)
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