It is primarily of use for library staff. Call number is the number used to retrieve individual slides in Columbia's slide library. This is primarily of interest to faculty members requesting slides for use in the classroom. Artist, site, or cultural references appear in this field. For example, a particular designer's name, when known, would be placed here.
Title is a generic description string created to describe the particular image.
The physical description identifies some characteristics related to the image itself, such as the medium used, the size, the artist or photographer's name when known. The descriptor field contains additional descriptive keywords. Note that when you specifically search the descriptor field, words from the title field are also searched automatically. May contain an author name followed by a slash, then title of the document followed by a comma, and any page or figure number references after that. When present, this field contains the video frame number that can be used to locate the item in the Imagebase video laser disc.