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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>The Controlled Vocabularies Editorial team has posted 8 new Genre Term scope notes to the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Community Discussion blog <a href="http://rbms.info/cv-comments/"><font color="red"><b><u>http://rbms.info/cv-comments/</u></b></font></a></div>
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<div>Although these terms were already part of Genre Terms, and have established usage, they lacked scope notes. The CV team is undertaking a systematic a review of all of those terms without scope notes, and composing definitions for each of them. </div>
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<div>We are currently seeking feedback from those in the rare materials community on the scope notes for the following terms:</div>
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<li>Abridgements</li><li>Academic dissertations</li><li>Baccalaureate addresses</li><li>Baccalaureate sermons</li><li>Fantasy literature</li><li>Folk plays</li><li>Literary quarrels</li><li>Novellas</li></ul>
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<div><b>Please post your comments o</b><b>n the CV Community Discussion blog</b><b> </b><a href="http://rbms.info/cv-comments/"><font color="red"><b><u>http://rbms.info/cv-comments/</u></b></font></a><b> </b><b>during the discussion period which runs from
May 15 to May 22.</b> </div>
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<div>We look forward to hearing from you!</div>
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<div>Jane Carpenter and Ryan Hildebrand, Co-Chairs</div>
<div>RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group</div>
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