[DCRM-L] Genre Terms query: blank forms

[Deborah J. Leslie]

"Blank forms" is in Genre Terms, but unscoped. AAT has a scope note for
"blank forms" that reads: Forms whose spaces provided for information
have not been filled.

 

The AAT scope doesn't sit quite right with me, because it's combining
both a genre (blank form) with copy-specific information (hasn't been
filled out). Does it make sense to anyone else that if and when RBMS
gives a scope note for this, it should apply to all copies of the
edition, regardless of what has happened to the form after distribution?

 

I also wonder why anyone would be interested in blank blank forms, but
not in filled-out blank forms. 

 

Thoughts?  

 

 

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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. 
Head of Cataloging 
Folger Shakespeare Library 
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