CISSIG NewsAuthor(s): Deborah BooneSource: Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 1,No. 6 (December 1982), pp. 194-195Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27947032 .

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194 Art Documentation, December, 1982

ARCHITECTURE SIG COLUMN edited by Sherman Clarke

The fourth set of postage stamps honoring American architecture was issued on 30 September 1982. The choice of honored architects

(Wright, Miles, Gropius, and Eero Saarinen) indicates the strong European influence on 20th-century architecture in the U.S. A Michael Graves's Portland Building is the subject of a critique by Patricia Failing ("If Gloria Swanson Were a Building," Art News,

Sept. 1982, pp. Ill, 114.) Failing discusses the building as built in relation to the much-publicized drawings, etc. To her mind, the colors are less subtle and less interesting in the actual building than in the drawings, and the walls have the visual character of a prison. A Paul Goldberger discusses the homogenization of contemporary architecture in "Toward a New International Style" (New York Times

Magazine. Part 2, Home Design, Sept. 26, 1982, p. 5Uit.). Kuwait looks like Dallas, and Paris and Milan get out-of-scale towers.

A John Russell contemplates postmodernism in the arts including architecture in "Modernism to Postmodernism: a New World Once

Again" (New York Times, Aug. 22, 1982, pp. Hl, H23). A "Emerging Young Architects: Diversity and New Directions"

by Paul Goldberger (New York Times, Sept. 16, 1982, pp. Cl, C6) summarizes the work of such architects as Roger Ferri, George Ranalli, Susan Torre, and Arquitect?nica. The common thread, to

Goldberger's eyes, is a sort of warmth and sensuality applied to the

vocabulary of the International Style. This theme also appears in Carol Vogel's article ("Warmed-up Minimal: Spare but Stylish,"

New York Times, Sept. 9, 1982, pp. Cl, C6). In her discussion of new

interiors, she declares that "with postmodernism losing much of its

novelty, some architects and designers are bringing back minimalist

ideas, but in a slightly altered form." Postmodernism is dead; long live postminimalism. A "Highrise of Homes" by SITE, Inc. (New York: Rizzoli, Sept. 1982, $12.50, pbk.) presents one method of combining the individual suburban house and dense urban space?the houses are stacked in a

parking garage-like structure. Among the periodicals reviewing or

discussing the new book is Publishers Weekly (Sept. 17, 1982, pp. 87-88.). According to PW, Artforum for October will feature the

garden aspects of the project. A "Either house or architect can be named third part in the dissolu tion of marriage" is the caption of Joseph Giovannini's article entitled "A House Divided (Metropolis, Sept. 1982, pp. 12-13.). The effect of the house building process on a client-couple is examined. This article is another example of Giovannini's incisive comment on the emotional and/or social aspects of buildings. He is the architectural critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. A For a gossipy look at Philip Johnson, see "Philip Johnson's Home" by Charlotte CurtisfAfew York Times, Aug. 24, 1982, p. C8). A The collaboration of Gertrude Jekyll on gardens and Edwin

Lutyens on country houses is the subject of "Two Surviving Gar dens by Great English Designers" by Fred Whitsey and Susan Heller Anderson (New York Times, Aug. 19, 1982, p. C6). Jane Brown's Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (New York: Van Nostrand

Reinhold, 1982, $29.95) is another source of information? both textual and pictorial?on this fruitful juncture of talents. A Dona Guimares discusses what it's like to stay in English follies in the New York Times Magazine (Part 2, Home Design, Sept. 26, 1982, p. 30ff.). She cites Anthony Burton's The Shell Book of Curious Britain (London: David & Charles, 1982) as a recent but inspecific guide with a useful gazetteer. Several other useful Shell guides have been published. A When I was in Philadelphia for the American Library Association meetings in July 1982, I used Edward Teitelman and Richard Longstveth's Architecture in Philadelphia (MIT Press, 1981, pbk.) as a guide. It seemed to identify the buildings I wanted to know about and is arranged by area for ease in touring. A The Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records announces

publication of an index to architects, architectural firms, and pho tographers cited in a previous COPAR publication, Architectural

Research Materials in Philadelphia. The index was com

piled by Shanette M. Harris, a summer employee at the Library of Congress, and is designed to allow its addition at the end of the orig inal publication. It is available free of charge by writing to COPAR, Prints & Photographs Division, LC, Washington, DC 20540.

A A Guide to Graduate Degree Programs in Architectural

History, prepared under the chairmanship of Dora Wiebenson and the Society of Architectural Historians' Education Committee, is now available from the SAH office (1700 Walnut St., Suite 716, Philadelphia, PA 19103) for $2.00 plus 65? postage and handling. A The 1983 Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians will be held at the Phoenix Hilton Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona, April 6-10.

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ALA MEETING NEWS A The August 13, 1982 issue of the Library of Congress Infor mationn Bulletin reports on the activities of the Resources and Tech nical Services Division (RTSD) and the Library Information and Technology Association (LITA) at the annual conference of the American Library Association, held this past summer in Philadel

phia. The CCS (Cataloging and Classification Section) Cataloging Norms Discussion Group met to discuss the topic of standards for

catalogers. Lucia J. Rather, director of cataloging, Processing Ser

vices, Library of Congress, discussed the quality and quantity stan dards for LC cataloging staff, noting that high degree of specialization complicates standards development. She described how a cataloger's work is sampled, how errors are determined and counted, and how the data upon which standards were based and collected. The CCS Heads of Cataloging Departments Discussion Group addressed the follow

ing issues: (1) what is a minimum level of productivity for catalogers; (2) the percentage of time catalogers spend on original cataloging versus non-cataloging tasks; (3) the amount of time cataloging heads themselves spend doing original cataloging; and (4) the status of

minimal-level cataloging in various libraries. Ben R. Tucker, Chief, Office for Cataloging Policy (LC), re

viewed the latest Library of Congress activities. Cooperation through the Name Authorities Cooperative Project is very active. There are now 24 participating libraries, including Harvard University and the

University of Chicago. Harvard will be the only contributing library able to input name authorities into the LC on-line file directly. TOSCA (Total On-Line Searching for Cataloging Activities) was planned for implementation this past fall by LC, but has been delayed until the beginning of 1983. LC will close its manual catalogs and catalogers will restrict their searching to the on-line data base.

Headings will be formulated only on the basis of what is al

ready represented in the data base. A Trie CCS Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) Subcommittee on Library of Congress Subject Authority Control: Scope, Format and Distribution also met at ALA. The subcommittee made recommenda tions to SAC concerning the development of an automated subject authority file at LC. The following recommendations (arranged roughly in priority order) were made: (1) The Library of Congress should make its automated file available for distribution in MARC format, as well as provide periodic updates that can be integrated easily in the main file; (2) The automated file should be a comprehen sive one, containing explicitly all authorized subject headings and references used by the Library of Congress; (3) Consideration should be given to the question of how best to handle free-floating subdivi sions in the automated file; (4) The automated file should include all geographic names used in LC subject headings, including even those represented in the Library's file of name authorities. If, in the future the name and subject authority files were merged, the redundant re cords would be deleted; (5) All changes made to headings in the

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Art Documentation, December, 1982 195

automated subject authority file should also be made in all correspond ing subject tracings on MARC bibliographic records in the interest in maintaining a consistent catalog; (6) Library of Congress and Dewey classification numbers should be included in authority records, whenever possible; (7) The authority file should include the reference structure for commonly used subdivisions, at least in the case of frequently used headings; (8) Finally, the committee

emphasized that adoption of its recommendations concerning the Library's automated subject authoity file should not preclue

improvements in the print and microform editions of Library of Congress Subject Headings.

QUESTIONS?? AND ANSWERS Recent correspondence addressed to the Officer of Descriptive

Cataloging Policy queried AACR 2 forms of headings for the museums in West Berlin. LC had established some individual museums as subordinate to the parent body, the Staatliche Museum Preussischer Kulturbesitz. These included the Museum f?r Os

tasiatische Kunst, the Kupferstichkabinett, and the Kunstgewer bemuseum. LC answers that these headings were established prior to

the Rule Interpretation for 24.13, type 3, published in Cataloging Service Bulletin 15 went into effect. The heading for the Kunstgewer bemuseum has already been changed to

' 'Kunstgewerbemuseum (Be

rlin, Germany : West)." The others will be changed gradually as they come up. The Joint Steering Committee for the revision of AACR 2 has approved the revision of type 3, without any action that would render LC's RI invalid. If changes are made according to the RI, they will be in the current AACR 2 approved form. Other correspondence

concerning the reconversion of two "empty" headings according to 24.13, type 3, elicits the affirmation that "Nationalmuseet

(Denmark)" and "Nationalmusuem (Sweden)" will be changed to indirect form (i.e., "Sweden. Nationalmuseum" and "Denmark.

Nationalmuseet"). A Lucy Marks (Art Institute of Chicago) wrote to LC about the different forms used for "Duomo" and other building headings. Ben R. Tucker replies: "The... question you raise pertains to the 'incon

sistency' shown between 'Duomo [Name of place]' and 'Duomo di

[Name of place].' This discrepancy is due to the different forms of names found on the item being cataloged, which represents the pri mary basis for the heading. If the book shows 'Duomo' as the name, then the heading pattern 'Duomo [Name of place])' results, while 'Duomo di [Name of place]

' results from seeing 'Duomo di [Name of

place].' The cataloger may neither invent 'di [Name of place]' when

'Duomo' is seen, nor subtract 'di [Name of place]' when 'Duomo di

[Name of place]' is seen. In short, the cataloger may not ignore names

found in order to regularize headings." The names for buildings can

be arbitrary; depending on which work is cataloged first, the heading can be established in different ways. The Cataloging Advisory Com mittee (C AC) is working on the problem of headings for building and ARLIS/NA members may wish to refer examples, comments and suggested solutions to the chairman, Jane Kaufman (Fogg Art

Museum Library). Does anyone use LC classification number 8215 for illustrations

of literary works? If so, has a special cutter system to distinguish individual authors/titles been developed? (Or do most libraries prefer using the numbers in the Literature schedule, PA-PT?)

LITERATURE "Descriptive Cataloging in 1981" by Constance Rinehart, Library

Resources & Technical Services, July/September 1982. "Year's Work in Subject Analysis: 1981" by Jennifer A. Younger,

Library Resources & Technical Services, July/September 1982.

NOTICE!!! Ruta Butkus Marino (Cleveland Museum of Art) has agreed to take

over the duties of OSSIG moderator for 1982/83, replacing Mary Frorer who resigned.

Please send any comments, questions, articles to: Deborah L. Boone, J. Paul Getty Museum Library, PO Box 2112, Santa Monica, CA 90406.

SERIALS SIG COLUMN PERIODICAL UPDATE Cessations:

Humanities Report. Discontinued with June 1982.

Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ceased with vol. 76, no. 3 (July, Aug. 1982).

Title Changes: Textile History: the Journal of Textile & Costume History & Con

servation. Vol. 13 (1982)- . Surrey, England: Butterworth

Scientific, 1982 . Semiannual.

Formerly: Textile History vol. 1 (1968)-vol. 12 (1981). Edington, England: Pasold Research Fund. Annual.

Changed from ajournai of mainly economic history to one that will encompass all aspects of the role of textiles and costumes in social

history, and the techniques of their conservation.

The Archive, no. 16 (1982)- . Tucson: Center for Creative

Photography, University of Arizona. Continues as the Center for Creative Photography, Research Series no. 1-15.

Delayed Publication:

Aegyptiaca Helvetica. Vol. 8 not yet published. Published out of sequence; vol. 9 already published.

Archaeologica (Society of Antiquairies of London). Vol. 107 due Fall 1982; vol. 108 due 3 years after publication of vol. 107.

New Publications: Art International Book Supplement. Vol. 1, no. 1 (1982)- . Art

International, Via Maraini 17-A Lugano, Switzerland. Quarterly. $80/year.

Will contain reviews of up to 50 books from the major presses in Britain and on the Continent, in America and Asia. Illustrated.

The Art Marketing Letter. Due Sept. (1982). R. Lubow Presentations, 2382 Highway MM, Oregon, WI 53575. 10/year. $36/year. "Will deal with the problems of marketing, pricing and promoting original art.

" Aimed at the working visual artist.

Israel Museum Journal. Vol. 1 (1982)- . Continues in part Israel Museum News, which is now published as a newsletter.

Mosaic. Sept./Oct. (1982)- . Art Institute of Chicago. Bi

monthly. Replaces the Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago. Serves as a calendar of exhibitions and events at the Art Institute.

Vanity Fair. Due March (1983). PO Box 5228, Boulder, CO 80321. $24 for first charter issue.

Originally published 1914?1936. Will deal with literature, arts, popular culture, etc.

Bonnie Postlethwaite The Cleveland Museum of Art Library &

Alexandra de Luise Frick Art Reference Library

SERIALS S WAP-1983 For those of you who are interested in disposing of your

duplicate serials or in filling in gaps in your collection, the Serials SIG will again sponser a Serials Swap at the 1983 Conference in Philadelphia. We hope to follow past tradition and meet in or near the hospitality suite on two evenings, after other scheduled activities.

Please bring your list of duplicates arranged alphabetically, with volume and issue numbers and month or season and year.

They 're much easier to work with that way. If you have duplicates list, but don't want to sit in on the

"swap" or won't be in Philadelphia, send it to Anne Reese,

Librarian, Toledo Museum of Art, Box 1013, Toledo, OH 43697, before mid-February.

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