[DCRM-L] Call for volunteers: RBMS Genre terms

[at2186 at columbia.edu]

Hi, Nina--

I'd like to participate.



Alex Thurman
Cataloger
Columbia University Libraries
535 W. 114th St,
New York, NY 10027
at2186 at columbia.edu

Quoting nschneider at nypl.org:

>
> Greetings!
>
> One of the goals of the Bibliographic Standards Committee’s
> Thesaurus
> Subcommittee is to provide scope notes (SN) for all terms found
> in the
> Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book Cataloging. As a
> first step,
> the subcommittee identified fifty-nine terms from the Genre Terms
> Thesaurus
> (rbgenr) that need SNs as soon as possible, either to resolve
> conflicts
> among thesauri, or to fulfill requests from users. We are seeking
> volunteers to draft SNs for these terms.
>
> We hope to have enough volunteers so that each person only needs
> to work on
> five terms. If you are interested in volunteering, we ask that
> you first
> become familiar with the proposal form (attached), as well as the
> ANSI/NISO
> standard
> (http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-19-2005.pdf).
> Both documents will help in the formation of appropriate and
> succinct
> descriptions.
>
> Please respond with your statement of interest no later than July
> 31st so
> that terms can be assigned accordingly.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Nina
>
> (See attached file: new term proposal form.doc)
>
> +------------------
> Nina Schneider
> Thesaurus Editor
>
> Berg Collection of English & American Literature, Room 320
> The New York Public Library
> Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
> New York, NY  10018-2788
>
> Tel.: (212) 642-0111
> Fax.: (212) 930-0079
> nschneider at nypl.org