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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Presumably the genre/form term
applies to the form as it existed before it was filled out. If I were
cataloging such a form I would feel comfortable using this term even though the
one I was cataloging happened to have been written on (i.e. is no longer blank),
just as I am comfortable describing a book in my catalog record as though it
was pristine even though it’s been written on. What happens to it after
it gets published would be local information, wouldn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I do think the AAT scope note is
poorly written. I’d suggest instead something like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Forms with blank spaces intended
to be filled with information by users of the form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I think “Forms whose
spaces provided for information have not been filled” makes no sense
grammatically or otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Robert L. Maxwell<br>
Head, Special Collections and Metadata Catalog Dept.<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
(801)422-5568</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah
J. Leslie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 06, 2009 1:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Genre Terms query: blank forms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>"Blank forms" is in Genre Terms, but unscoped. AAT
has a scope note for "blank forms" that reads: Forms whose spaces
provided for information have not been filled.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The AAT scope doesn't sit quite right with me, because it's
combining both a genre (blank form) with copy-specific information (hasn't been
filled out). Does it make sense to anyone else that if and when RBMS gives a
scope note for this, it should apply to all copies of the edition, regardless
of what has happened to the form after distribution?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I also wonder why anyone would be interested in blank blank
forms, but not in filled-out blank forms. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thoughts? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>__________________________</span>
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<span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. <br>
Head of Cataloging <br>
Folger Shakespeare Library <br>
201 East Capitol St., S.E. <br>
Washington, D.C. 20003 <br>
202.675-0369 <br>
djleslie@folger.edu | <a href="http://www.folger.edu">http://www.folger.edu</a>
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