Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group
Draft Charge – July 2014


Charge: Under the aegis of the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC), the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group is responsible for Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging. The group will develop and maintain content and access of the RBMS controlled vocabularies. 

Membership [as approved by BSC in April, 2014]: This group will be co-edited by a member of Bibliographic Standards Committee and a member of the Publications & Communications Committee. One editor, appointed by the vice chair/chair elect in consultation with the chair of the Bibliographic Standards Committee, will serve on the Bibliographic Standards Committee and be responsible for content development and editing. The other editor, appointed by the vice chair/chair elect in consultation with the chair of the Publications & Communications Committee and the Bibliographic Standards Committee, will serve on the Publications & Communications Committee with the sole responsibility of creation and maintenance of the infrastructure containing the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies. The appointments will be new two-year term appointments apart from his or her original appointment to the Bibliographic Standards Committee and/or the Publications Committee, and may be renewed once for an additional two years.



Note: at Annual 2014, BSC’s request for approval for Membership from Exec was tabled until the charge is resolved.