Visual Materials Collections: 6xx, 7xx

6XX fields: Subject headings

Assign subject headings as specific as the material and institutional policy warrant. For specific guidance refer to the Library of Congress Subject Heading manual for terms to describe what the collection is about. Assign as many subject headings as seem appropriate. If considered important, subdivide headings with form terms appropriate to graphic materials or use the relationship designator “depicted” to indicate the pictorial nature. Subdivisions most commonly applicable include:

  • ‡v Photographs
  • ‡v Pictorial works
  • ‡v Posters

Example:

245 10 ‡a Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel collection of western American art, ‡f 1728-1966.
651 _0 ‡a Northwest, Pacific ‡v Pictorial works.
651 _0 ‡a West (U.S.) ‡v Pictorial works.

655 fields: Genre/form headings

Assign as applicable. Prefer the terminology found in the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials; terms from other controlled vocabularies such as the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies may also be used as appropriate. As with subject headings, assign headings as specifically and numerously as the material and institutional policy warrant.

Example:

245 10 ‡a Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel collection of western American art, ‡f 1728-1966.

655 _7 ‡a Drawings. ‡2 gmgpc
655 _7 ‡a Engravings. ‡2 gmgpc
655 _7 ‡a Etchings. ‡2 gmgpc
655 _7 ‡a Oil paintings. ‡2 gmgpc
655 _7 ‡a Pastels (Visual works) ‡2 gmgpc
655 _7 ‡a Lithographs. ‡2 gmgpc


7XX fields: Added entries and linking entries

Types of added entries considered useful for various types of materials include: creators of collections, names of collections, author/title headings, etc. In cases where a person or corporate body is both the creator or issuing body and the subject of a collection, it may be appropriate to provide both a 6XX subject entry and a 1XX or 7XX entry. 

If a linking entry complexity note has been used in field 580 to describe the Relationship of the group being cataloged to a larger entity, make a linking entry for the larger entity using field 773.