GMGPC

[Patrick Russell]

Helena;

Hi Helena:

Thanks for getting back to me on this matter of Volvelles.  The term is
still under discussion, and we may choose to have  Volvelles in fact added
to RBMS Genre terms in any case, as it already has a number of
"illustration" terms.  But I believe the general sense is that the term is
appropriate to both lists.  This will be looked at MidWinter in San
Antonio; no other deadline yet to my knowledge.

As another broader term, "Illustrations" would be better than "Book
illustrations" as volvelles can occur alone or with other things (e.g., a kit)
 
On a different matter: It has come to my attention that numerous LC records
are using field 655 for topical terms used generically from LCSH, coded as
follows:

655  7 Childen's fiction.$2lcsh
655  7 Political fiction.$2lcsh
[etc.]

This appears to have some relationship to the use of $v

650  0  Christian converts from Judaism $z Austria $v Fiction.
650  0  City and town life $z Austria $v Fiction.
651  0  Austria $x History $y 1867-1918 $v Fiction.
655  7  Jewish fiction. $2 lcsh
(98-18169//r98)

I can find nothing in Cat. Serv. or Subj. Heading Manual about this.  Can
you bring me up to date on this, or refer to the appropriate party?

Thanks,

Patrick

At 09:58 AM 11/1/99 -0500, Helena Zinkham wrote:
>Patrick:
>Your term proposal sounds fine.    It helps a lot to have the scope
>note and literary warrant already laid out.
>
>Would a second broader term of "Illustrations"  or  "Book
>illustrations" be appropriate?
>
>What deadline are you working under?   (The software by which the TGM
>II thesaurus is published" on the Web is being upgraded and we can't
>issue updates until that process is finished.)
>
>Very nice to hear from you again,  Helena
>
>>>> Patrick Russell <prussell at library.berkeley.edu> 10/29 6:45 PM
>>>>
>Hi Helena:
>
>As I no longer have Sarah Rouse's E-mail, I'm posting this to you.
>
>The Thesaurus group of the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the
>Rare
>Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL is considering additions and
>changes
>of terms in the thesauri it publishes.
>
>The term "Volvelles" has come up for extensive discussion, and is
>widely
>needed in rare books collections.  We have considered putting the
>term in
>"Genre terms" and "Printing and publishing evidence," but neither
>has
>seemed wholly appropriate to some members of the Committee given the
>scope
>of these thesauri as presently defined.
>
>Would the LC Prints and Photographs Division consider adding
>"Volvelles" to
>the terms presently in: Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre
>and
>Physical Characteristics Terms? 
>
>GMGPC already has a number of terms relative to book illustration.
>"Volvelles" could be added as an NT to "Mechanical works."
>
>Volvelles
>PN Composite diagrams with movable parts. These parts are circles,
>or
>segments of circles, 	bearing printed information, superimposed upon
>each
>other, and rotated on a central axis.
>BT Mechanical works
>
>cf. Glaister, G.A. Glaister's Glossary of the Book (2nd ed., 1979) p.
>503;
>GMGPC p. 530 (Mechanical works) and p. 531 (Metamorphic pictures)
>
>The above PN etc. is my own, for purposes of providing a possible
>text and
>place in the thesaurus.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Patrick Russell
>Bancroft Library Technical Services
>
>