GAINING ACCESS TO VISUAL INFORMATION: Theory, Analysis, and Practice of Determining Subjects--A Review of the Literature with Descriptive Abstracts.

The article presents abstracts of research and articles related to the provision of subject access to visual information in art libraries. They include "Intellectual Problems of Indexing Picture Collections," "Art Cataloging: Looking Back in North America 1972-1982," "Subject Indexing in the Visual Arts," and "Guest Editorial: A Paradigm Shift in Library Science."