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Introduction
Subject Access to Art Images
The Language of Images
It Begins with the Cataloguer
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The Image User and the Search for Images
Annoted List of Tools
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
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Introduction to Art Image Access


Selected Bibliography


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Bates, Marcia J. "How to Use Controlled Vocabularies More Effectively in Online Searching." Online 12, no. 6 (1988): 45–56.

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Turner, James M. "Subject Access to Pictures: Considerations in the Surrogation and Indexing of Visual Documents for Storage and Retrieval." Visual Resources 9, no. 3 (1993): 241–71.

Walch, Victoria Irons, comp. Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1994. Also available on the World Wide Web at <http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/index.html>.