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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As most now know, 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 current<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>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. Comments are welcome from now until June 10.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are five scope notes to consider at present: Libri amicorum, Literary hoaxes, Literary quarrels, Lyric poems, and Masques.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The terms themselves have already been approved, and are included in the current version of the vocabularies:
<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>, but comments are welcome on the scope notes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<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>
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