Artists’ books are at once a highly specialized genre within the realm of library and information science and a classification of information broad enough to embrace the same fundamental considerations associated with all library materials. Do artists’ books belong in libraries?
Like many small liberal-arts colleges, Franklin & Marshall is challenged with the task of cataloging, storing, making accessible, and delivering digital images for faculty and students to use. The poster (“Anatomy of a Record”) accompanied by this handout presents ways in which Franklin & Marshall successfully has adapted the DSpace Dublin Core template to the best-practices cataloging of visual resources, in this case a teaching collection of art and architectural history images.
