The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (CWAHI) grew out of Concordia University Visual Arts librarian Melinda Reinhart’s intention to create an online bio/bibliography of women artists in Canada. Concordia Slide Librarian, Janice Anderson, and Concordia Professor Kristina Huneault joined the … Continue reading
Hi all and happy holidays! The Artist Files SIG welcomes 37 new members to the SIG since my last update on August 17, 2018. We currently have 342 members Artist Files SIG at the ARLIS/NA 2019 Conference, Salt Lake City … Continue reading
Hi artist files fans, I’ve created a spreadsheet that is an attempt to round up where various institutions are in terms of cataloging their artist files. One of the uses of this document is to help OCLC get a better … Continue reading
Best Practices for Cataloging Artist Files Using MARC updates the cataloging recommendation included in Artist Files Revealed: Documentation and Access, published by the Artist Files Working Group in 2009/2010, and was guided by the following goals: Provide conformance to RDA Specify a … Continue reading
Hi artist files fans, especially those who are interested in learning more about batch processing sets of artist files names into MARC: I’m sharing this super-relevant post written by Karen Smith-Yoshimura of OCLC Research. As we learned at the 2018 Artist … Continue reading
Artist Files Revealed: Documentation and Access provides general guidelines for creating MARC records representing artist files. It also provides recommendations for the physical maintenance of files and day-to-day procedures of processing and arranging the numerous and varied items found in artist … Continue reading
NOTE: The following text originally published as a section in Artist Files Revealed: Documentation and Access. Introduction This chapter provides recommendations for the physical maintenance of artist files. It addresses the day-to-day procedures of processing the numerous and varied items found inappropriate … Continue reading