We deal with a lot of posters, which also are untitled. We have established a set of rules for consistently titling things; we then devise a title for untitled objects, and append a "Title devised by cataloger" note. This works well for us, but may be specific to the material we deal with (popular music-related stuff). It allows us to put some recognizable information in the title field, for the reason you have identified (computer-generated labels, and title searches). What do other people out there think of this? Jim Fricke Experience Music Project [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- We are working on a new computerized catalog and have hit a new hitch. I am including a layout which will take some of the fields from the "catalog card" and use them to produce labels for the objects, which will look something like this: Title (or name of object) Provenance and date Acc. # Donor & Date of donation The problem comes with paintings and prints for which we have little information and no formal title. Do we say "Untitled" or is that in itself a kind of title within the art community? Do we say "Title Unknown"? Six or eight of those in a row could get pretty funny. Do we say "Watercolor", etc.? Any suggestions here? Ivy Fleck Strickler Phone 215-895-1637 Drexel University Fax 215-895-4917 Nesbitt College of Design Arts [log in to unmask] Philadelphia, PA 19104