[DCRM-L] Fore-edge painting

[Ann K.D. Myers]

Fore-edge paintings should be treated as copy-specific information. At my library, we put binding descriptions in a 590 note, but follow whatever copy-specific note convention your library uses. You can also use genre terms for fore-edge paintings (I think another responder mentioned AAT and RBMSCV terms) - we put those in a 655 field with a $5 for our institution code to indicate that that genre term only applies to our copy.

Hope this helps!

--Ann


Ann K.D. Myers

Senior Rare Books Cataloger

Stanford Libraries

Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives

415 Broadway, Floor 1, 8406

Redwood City, CA 94063

akdmyers at stanford.edu

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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Fore-edge painting

Hello,
I also get excited by fore-edge paintings on rare books. It is my understanding, though I am still kind of a newbie in regards to rare book cataloging, that some of the copies may not have the painting. So the catalogers who used that record may have copies without painting. If this is the case, then you should put that aspect in a local note. I could be wrong though. Good luck!
Colleen
Colleen O. Fedewa, MLS
Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian
Kelvin Smith Library
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM Julie Moore via DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu<mailto:dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>> wrote:
This must be my DCRM-B day!

I also have on my desk a book that has a fore-edge painting. (So exciting!)

The catalog record does not reflect this. Is there a special field to put that, or do you normally just use a 500 general note?
500    Includes fore-edge painting.

Kind regards,
Julie Moore


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Julie Renee Moore
Special Collections Catalog Librarian
Fresno State
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