[DCRM-L] Genre Terms query: blank forms

[Holly Phelps]

Hello Deborah,

 

I agree about the scope note. For the genre heading, it's immaterial
whether the form has been filled out in manuscript. Annotations,
including the completion of a blank form, we handle in 590 notes.

 

We have a fellow here at LCP this semester who is studying blank forms,
"textual instruments" he calls them, not for their manuscript notes, but
for their evidence in the history of printing. I don't think he's given
his colloquium yet (if he did, I missed it) so I can't give you more
specifics.

 

Holly

 

H.A. Phelps

Library Company of Philadelphia

hphelps at librarycompany.org

 

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Subject: [DCRM-L] Genre Terms query: blank forms

 

"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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