Cataloging Exhibition Publications: Name and Title Access Points (2025)

Choosing name and title access points for exhibition publications is complicated by the need to record information about the exhibition as well as the publication. Curators, translators, designers, editors, writers, photographers, and artists whose works are displayed in the exhibition or reproduced in the catalog contribute to the intellectual and artistic content of the exhibition and the publication. Corporate bodies such as museums, galleries, foundations, governmental agencies, or for-profit corporations may also play an important role in producing or sponsoring the exhibition and/or the catalog. Even information that is exhibition specific, such as the names of exhibition venues or an exhibition name that differs from the title of the publication, is important to record, because users often search for an exhibition catalog by these access points.