Buildings: what

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Buildingswhats the problem?

• Sherman Clarke
• New York University Libraries Art NACO
• ALA Midwinter SACO-At-Large
• San Antonio, January 2006
• sherman.clarke_at_nyu.edu

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issues for catalogers, particularly those in
art/architecture or historical collections

• name and body may share name, may not
• construction of artificial names for building,
  e.g., Banca Commerciale Italiana Building (New
  York, N.Y.) 670 Phone call to Paul Cohen,
  archivist at Lehman Brothers in New York City.
  Building now owned by Banca Commerciale Italiana
  and known by that name
• -- Buildings as subdivision under corporate
  names
• historical names resource in hand may be about
  building under earlier name, particularly
  important in picture collections
• buildings can change name, function, even
  location
• venues for exhibitions (space vs organizing
  group)

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• ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee proposed
  LCRI to CPSO
• http//artcataloging.net/ala/mw04/bldg2002.html
• SAC Task Force on Named Buildings and Other
  Structures
• http//www.ala.org/ala/alctscontent/catalogingsect
  ion/catcommittees/subjectanalysis/nbos/nbos.htm
  (final report and appendix of examples)

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some buildings act like corporate bodies

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Palazzo ducale di Colorno
• St. Bartholomews Episcopal Church (New York,
  N.Y.)
• Scotiabank
• Pierpont Morgan Library
• Carnegie Library (San Antonio, Tex.)
• Orpheum Theater (Manchester, N.H.)
• HINT all of these headings appear in LC/NAF,
  based on AACR

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some corporate bodies act like buildings

• Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building (Brooklyn,
  New York, N.Y. Broadway)
• Carnegie Mansion (New York, N.Y.)
• Villa Rotonda (Vicenza, Italy)
• SONY Building (New York, N.Y.)
• Palazzo ducale (Sassuolo, Italy)
• Orpheum Theatre (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
• HINT all of these headings appear in LC/SAF,
  based on SCMSH

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... or both

• Museo di Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy)
• Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy)
• SAF Scope Note Here are entered works on the
  Palazzo vecchio as a building. Works on the
  museum housed within the Palazzo are entered
  under the name heading Museo di Palazzo vecchio
  (Florence, Italy).
• Salone dei Cinquecento (Palazzo vecchio,
  Florence, Italy)

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... or not?

• Palazzo ducale (Mantua, Italy) heading on n
  88215117
• Museo di Palazzo ducale (Mantua, Italy)
  reference/variant
• one of 670s references on sh 88006052 Castello
  dei Gonzaga (Mantua, Italy), Ducal Palace
  (Mantua, Italy), Gonzaga Castle (Mantua, Italy),
  Reggia dei Gonzaga (Mantua, Italy))

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SAF/NAF

• divided world related to capability for
  authorship
• buildings, ancient sites, artist groups
• ease of record creation (SACO Program has eased
  the process of creating SH proposals as with
  name authority work, internet resources can often
  help in verifying names of structures)

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FRBR

• entities in groups
• Group 1 work, expression, manifestation, item
• Group 2 persons, corporate bodies (capability of
  authorship)
• Group 3 concept, object, event, place (subjects)
  
• corporate bodies vs. FRBR objects
• classes of objects vs. individual objects in
  those classes

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AACR2 earlier rules

• institutions (e.g., churches, monasteries, public
  libraries, museums, theaters, hospitals)
• name changes
• AACR2 uses sequence of headings
• SCMSH uses latest name

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issues for catalogers, particularly those in
art/architecture or historical collections(contin
ued)

• historical names resource in hand may be about
  building under earlier name, particularly
  important in picture collections
• venues for exhibitions (space vs organizing
  group)

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overview of SCMSH H 1334

• model
• heading name of structure (geographic
  qualifier)
• reference(s) alternate name(s) (geog.
  qualifier)
• broader term type of structure z country or
  first-order subdivision
• direct order entry
• preference for vernacular for post-1500 entities
  preference for English for pre-1500 if
  well-established name in English
• latest name

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LCSH or AAT

• AAT doesnt include individual buildings and
  building complexes
• may be useful for building types
• mixing vocabularies can be problematic
• proposing LCSH based on AAT

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sources for building names

• National register information system -
  http//www.nr.nps.gov/
• Philadelphia architects and buildings -
  http//www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/
• The great buildings collection -
  http//www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
• The dictionary of art - online as
  http//groveart.com
• Avery index to architectural periodicals (Avery
  Library, Columbia University and Getty Trust)
• Google and other web browsers

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more sources for building namesand related issues

• your colleagues via
• SACOLIST
• ARTNACO
• SACO Mentor Program
• more information on the buildings problem
  including links to reports of the SAC Task Force
  on Named Buildings and Other Structures