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.
New Rules Published in 2013
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics) provides guidelines and instructions for descriptive cataloging of graphic materials, other than maps, receiving special treatment within a repository. Graphic materials include still images of all types, such as prints, drawings, photographs, posters, postcards, pictorial advertisements, cartoons, comic strips, portraits, landscapes, book illustrations, born-digital pictures, etc. Special treatment usually results from the fragility, rarity, and enduring value of the materials, including potential aesthetic, iconographical, and documentary value. DCRM(G) may be used for graphic materials of any age or type of production, published or unpublished.
DCRM(G) is the direct successor to Elisabeth Betz Parker’s Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections, published by the Library of Congress in 1982.
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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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