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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>The Controlled Vocabularies Editorial <font color="#1F497D">Group</font> has posted 12 new Genre Term scope notes to the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Community Discussion blog. We would love to have feedback from you—please post your comments to our blog.
And thanks to Web Team members <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Alison Clemens and Kelli Hansen, a custom search bar has been added to the CV blog page, now making it easily searchable. </span></font></div>
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<div><b>Posted on CV Blog for comment: </b>The comment period runs through November 4, 2015:</div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;">Picture novels (<b>Propose changing to Stories without words)</b></li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Stations of the cross (<b>Propose</b><b> deleting</b><b>)</b></li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Penny dreadfuls</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Posters</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Samizdat</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Three deckers</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Song sheets</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Songs</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Songsters</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Trade catalogs</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Yellowbacks</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">War sermons</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;"> </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;"><b>Approved: </b>Scope notes for the following 10 terms have been finalized and will be added to the Controlled Vocabularies genre list in the next update: <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>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;">Cookbooks</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Contracts</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Constitutions</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Congressional addresses</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Epistolary novels</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Ballad operas <b>(</b><b>historical time period </b><b>revised </b><b>from </b><b>“of the 18</b><font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt;"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><b> century” to “chiefly associated with the 18</b><font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt;"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><b>
century”)</b></li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Ballads</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Sales catalogs</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Royal petitions</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;">Essays</li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;">Don’t forget that you can always propose new terms for the thesauri by submitting the form on the Controlled Vocabularies webpage: <a href="http://rbms.info/vocabularies/form_thesaurus_term_proposal.shtml"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://rbms.info/vocabularies/form_thesaurus_term_proposal.shtml</u></font></a></div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;"><b>We look forward to hearing from you!</b></li></ul>
<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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