<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_-7263073953496661825gmail-m_9018928674974099210gmail-docs-internal-guid-2a1ac188-7fff-fed6-5a78-c7c211db2233"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**Apologies for cross-posting**

Dear colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Does your institution support research on watermarks or typography, physical or digital? Do you describe typography or watermarks in your catalog? If so, RBMS’s Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group (CVEG) asks for your participation in a short survey regarding whether you describe these features of a resource, how you do and want to record them, and where controlled vocabularies, most specifically, RBMS thesauri have or might fit into your practice: </span><a href="https://forms.gle/ysPZaA85kA7E56rQ8" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://forms.gle/ysPZaA85kA7E56rQ8</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please feel free to share this call for participants on specialized lists we may not be on or with colleagues to whom you know typography or watermarks are important.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Your practical, use information will help CVEG to formulate data-driven approaches to term creation and streamlining in these areas. We would appreciate your participation no later than February 28, 2020.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you in advance for your help and participation! Please do not hesitate to be in touch if you have questions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yours cordially,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br><br></span></p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Matthew Ducmanas (Temple University) and Patrick Crowley </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Southern Connecticut State University)</span></span>      <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Patrick Crowley (he/they)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="garamond, serif">Metadata Librarian for Cataloging and Digital Projects</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="garamond, serif">Hilton C. Buley Library</font></div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Southern </font><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif">Connecticut State University</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">501 Crescent St, </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">New Haven, CT 06515<br></font><div><a href="mailto:pcrowley4@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">pcrowley4@gmail.com</font></a></div></div></div></div>
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