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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>The Controlled Vocabularies Editorial <font color="#1F497D">Group</font> has posted <font color="#1F497D">7</font> new Genre Term scope notes to the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Community Discussion blog <a href="http://rbms.info/cv-comments/"><font color="#0563C1"><b><u>http://rbms.info/cv-commen</u></b></font><font color="#0563C1"><b><u>ts/</u></b></font></a><font color="#1F497D"><b>
</b></font>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<font color="#1F497D">,
and </font>is seeking<font color="#1F497D"> </font>feedback from the rare materials community. </div>
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<div>The comment period is June 9-16, so please chime in with your suggestions or edits, as they will be reviewed at our Annual meeting:</div>
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<li>Pamphlet wars</li><li>Concrete Poems</li><li>Dime novels</li><li>Execution sermons</li><li>Exhibition catalogs</li><li>Fables</li><li>Lyric poems</li></ul>
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<div>We have also added 5 new scope notes to the Controlled Vocabularies genre list <a href="http://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm"><font color="#0563C1"><b><u>http://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm</u></b></font></a><font color="red"><b>
</b></font>(pending posting by the Web Team), several of which incorporate suggestions received on the CV Blog: </div>
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<li>Theater programs </li></ul>
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<li>Type specimens</li><li>Literary forgeries</li><li>Literary hoaxes</li><li>Masques</li></ul>
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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>
<div>Amy F. Brown, Genre Terms Scope Note Project</div>
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