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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Subcommittee (of the Bibliographic Standards Committee) has been engaged in a project to write scope notes for terms lacking them in the Genre Terms thesaurus. We would appreciate your comments on our first round of draft scope notes, which may be read and commented on here: <a href="http://rbms.info/digress/genrescopenotes/">http://rbms.info/digress/genrescopenotes/</a>. Please see item no. 1 in the blog's table of contents for instructions on commenting. The period for commenting is from now until June 10, at which time I will synthesize comments into a document for subcommittee review at our ALA annual meeting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The terms are: Academic catalogs, Abridgements, Begging poems, Cartoons, Catalogs, Censored works, Century sermons, and Dedication sermons.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The terms themselves have already been approved, and are included in the current version of the vocabularies, available here: <a href="http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocabularies/index.shtml">http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocabularies/index.shtml</a>. In some cases, hierarchical placement or relationships have been changed or updated; these changes are reflected in the draft version of the term.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ryan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ryan Hildebrand<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Book Cataloging Dept. Head<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Curator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Harry Ransom Center<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>P.O. Box 7219<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Austin, TX 78713-7219<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>512-232-1681<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>www.hrc.utexas.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>