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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Hi everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">I’m currently working with a Yale task force that is reviewing the use of form and genre terms in the description of manuscript and archival material.
A primary goal of this group is to make recommendations that will facilitate better consistency of form/genre application across Yale special collections units, leading (hopefully) to improved user discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">New or improved local guidance on form/genre application is one possible tool for achieving this goal. With that in mind, I’m keen to hear if
others have established (or are aware of) local form/genre documentation that you find particularly successful. Please don’t be modest if it’s your own. Context is not limited to mss/archives.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Here are two examples that I’m aware of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">(Yale) Beinecke Rare Book Cataloging Unit:
<a href="http://beinecke1.library.yale.edu/info/bookcataloging/genre.htm">http://beinecke1.library.yale.edu/info/bookcataloging/genre.htm</a>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Folger Shakespeare Library (Folgerpedia):
<a href="https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Genre_and_form">https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Genre_and_form</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">It seems part of the exercise is to identify the terms that are important to your repository while keeping the list(s) to a manageable size. I’m
especially keen to see examples of documentation that are organized (with hierarchies or categories) by format, content matter, etc. The Beinecke example does this at a broad level (genre, binding, provenance, printing/publishing).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Francis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Francis Lapka</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Senior Catalogue Librarian</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Yale Center for British Art</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">203-432-9672 · </span><a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">francis.lapka@yale.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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