<div dir="ltr">Hi Deborah,<div><br></div><div>Maybe "Personal narratives" from LCGFT? <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026142.html">https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026142.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Its scope note is: </div><ul class="gmail-list-container" style="margin:0px 0px 1.25em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><li class="gmail-general-note" style="margin:0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline">Works which relate eyewitness accounts of events such as wars or disasters</li><li class="gmail-general-note" style="margin:0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline">Per <a href="https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeSHM/H1095.pdf" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">SHM H1095,</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> $v Personal narratives can also be used as a free floating subdivision under subject headings for events and wars.</span></li></ul><div>Matthew</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 5:30 PM Deborah J. Leslie via DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7305303287167794330">
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<div><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I'm cataloging an eyewitness description of harsh conditions in London over the winter of 1623/1624, and was surprised that there isn't a genre term
for eyewitness accounts anywhere I looked (RBMSCV, LCGFT, AAT). RBMS has relationship designator
<b>witness</b>, which isn't going to help me here. I've cataloged a lot of purported eyewitness accounts of battles, executions, other events, and so
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I can't imagine that it wouldn't be a useful addition to our genre/form vocabulary. The only objection I can think of is that, as suggested above, many purported eyewitness accounts are heavily fabricated; this is especially true of execution speeches and the
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Is there something I'm not thinking of, and any reason I shouldn't propose it as a new term to RBMSCV?</div>
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Hope nobody reads this until Monday as you all enjoy your weekend.</div>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Matthew C. Haugen<br>Rare Book Cataloger | Columbia University Libraries<br><a href="mailto:matthew.haugen@columbia.edu" target="_blank">matthew.haugen@columbia.edu</a> | 212-851-2451 | <a href="https://universitylife.columbia.edu/pronouns" target="_blank">he/they</a></div></div>