These are notes toward a CAC document on RDA best practices.

cf British Library Special Topics in RDA : Exhibition and art catalogues

SECTION ARRANGED BY RDA RULE NUMBER

11.13.1.2

When adding a term to a corporate name that does not convey the idea of a corporate body, use a general term, e.g., Firm, Gallery. Not Auctioneers, Art gallery.

25.1

Do not use conventional collective titles for artist monographs, exhibition and other art catalogs. That is, add these materials to the exceptions in LC-PCC PS 25.1.

Appendices

I.5.2

"curator" restricted to Items (appropriate for other Group 1 entities?)

"contributor" selected by Courtauld catalogers, per ALJ, v. 39, no. 1, 2014

New term added to I.2.2:

organizer A person, family, or corporate body organizing the exhibit, event, conference, etc., which gave rise to a work.

SECTION ARRANGED BY MARC FIELD

100

Use the relator "artist" for artist monographs and catalogs where artist is eligible for authorized access point (main entry).

110

What is the proper relationship term to use for collection catalogs? $e author? $e issuing body?

26X

could use some guidance on print-on-demand, e.g., photobooks produced via Blurb/Lulu, etc.; The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art (Met POD, Yale distributor)

585

This field is to be used for exhibition history of the resource, not for information about the exhibition represented by the resource.

AUTHORITY RECORDS

1XX

Do not include a relator term in authority records. The relationship is between the heading and a work/expression/manifestation and is not proper in the authority record.