The National Portrait Gallery (US) has numerous books entered in the objects module, as they are accessioned objects...although they are often virtual records that hold together groups of individually catalogued prints or drawings. Anyway, we have a classification for "Book", and our medium field usually reads something like "Hard-bound book with engraved frontispiece" or "Leather bound book" or "Book of lithographs". We enter other medium and support terms as attributes only.
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I am interested in hearing about this as well. We don't do this regularly,
but recently accessioned a Bible owned by Governor John Winthrop of
Connecticut as more of an 'object owned by him' rather than as a Bible. It
is living in our library stacks with the other books, but is being
considered a 'museum object'.
Any other examples of what people are doing for medium, classifications,
etc. would be great!
Thanks,
Diane
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Amber
Here in Leeds we used a simplified form for published books in the medium
field much as you suggest, usually the key for us in this instance is
whether it is a hardback or soft covered book.
Hope that helps
Regards
Jen
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Is anyone cataloging books in their object module? Our general use library
is being cataloged in the bibliography module, but our archival collection
of books is treated like objects and thus entered in the object module. For
anyone cataloging books this way, I have a question for you: What kind of
data are you including in the medium field? We are listing the medium with
as much detail as we would for a work of art, and I can’t help but wonder if
that’s just ridiculous.
For example: Would you use “printed ink on paper with coated cardboard
cover and printed, coated paper jacket,” or simply “hardcover book with dust
jacket?”
I can see the need to include a very detailed medium description for
artist’s books or other special books, but for regular, published books I
wonder if we need to simplify a bit. It would be really helpful to see how
other museums are doing this. I’ve managed to find some examples on the
Met’s site, but searching for books in museum collections can be kind of hit
or miss. If anyone knows of any online collections that include books this
way, please let me know.
Thanks,
Amber
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