Alex Reigle addressed attendees at the OCLC Update Meeting at ARLIS/NA 2018, New York City, to share the SIG’s work to improve the MARC standard for cataloging artist files.
I’m so excited to see artist files recently appear as a Library of Congress genre and form heading. I think it does a nice job of pulling together authoritative sources to help define artist files. I particuarly like the succinct scope … Continue reading
Thirty-three SIG members met at the New York Public Library Picture Collection reading room to discuss a number of topics. One of the outcomes of the meeting was approval of an updated mission statement, which now has been updated on artistfiles.arlisna.org. … Continue reading
So I was giving a tour of the library to the Fort Worth Library’s new director, Manya Shorr, when I stumbled across an anomaly in our artist files collection: a file on Peru-based artist Eduardo Moll. Our collection is peppered … Continue reading