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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 second<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>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 Dec. 21, at which time I will synthesize comments into a document for subcommittee review at our midwinter meeting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Convicts' addresses, Eclogues, Epics, Erotica, Etiquette books, Fabliaux, Fantasy literature, Farces, and Formularies.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></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>