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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>The Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group has posted 8 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 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><font color="red"><b>Posted on CV Blog for comment</b><font color="black"><b>: </b></font><font color="black">The comment period runs from December </font><font color="black">7-18</font><font color="black">, 2015</font></font></div>
<div><a href="http://rbms.info/cv-comments/"><b><u>http://rbms.info/cv-comments/</u></b></a></div>
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<li>Farewell sermons</li><li>Fast day addresses</li><li>Fast day proclamations</li><li>Feast day sermons</li><li>Festschriften</li><li>Dictionaries</li><li>Baptismal records</li><li>Battle sermons</li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font color="#00B050"><b>A</b><b>pproved</b><font color="red"><b>:</b></font><font color="black"><b> </b></font><font color="black">Scope notes for the following </font><font color="black">8 </font><font color="black">terms
have been finalized and will be added to the Controlled Vocabularies genre list in the next update: </font><a href="http://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm"><font color="black"><b><u>http://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm</u></b></font></a><font color="black"><b>
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<li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Fairy tales (BT Fold tales added)</li><li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Folk tales</li><li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Fantasy literature</li><li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Diaries</li><li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Dialogues</li><li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Devotional literature</li><li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Conversion narratives</li><li style="margin-bottom:5pt;">Bibliographies (minor revision to SN)</li></ul>
<div>New terms may always be proposed for the thesauri by submitting the form on the Controlled Vocabularies webpage: <a href="http://rbms.info/vocabularies/form_thesaurus_term_proposal.shtml"><u>http://rbms.info/vocabularies/form_thesaurus_term_proposal.shtml</u></a></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><b>Happy Holidays!</b></div>
<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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