[DCRM-L] OCLC Form/Genre Revisions and Pending RBMS Thesaurus Work?

[Ryan Hildebrand]

Hi Jeff,

It looks like LC's work will have no impact on us, as terms in the RBMS
Controlled Vocabularies do not have LC authority records. The coding change
shown in slide 18 reflects current practice for our terms, second indicator
of 7, with source of term in |2.

Thanks for sharing the pdf. I had not seen it, and it is an interesting read
for CV folks and surely others.

Sorry for this late reply. -Ryan


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University of Texas at Austin
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Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:38 AM
To: 'DCRM Revision Group List'
Subject: [DCRM-L] OCLC Form/Genre Revisions and Pending RBMS Thesaurus Work?

OCLC is planning what looks like major revisions of Form/Genre headings,
based on a webinar I sat in on recently (link to slides below).  

http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/webinars/GenreHeadings.pdf

I'm wondering how will this mesh with the work now being done by RBMS on our
own Form/Genre thesaurus?   

And based on their pending upload of reworked authority files (see slide
#18), I think there will be a disparity between these records and the 655
coding in our existing MARC records.  I'm also wondering how other libraries
are planning to deal with this?



Jeff Barton
Cotsen Children's Library Cataloger
Rare Books & Special Collections Department
Princeton University Library
One Washington Rd.
Princeton, NJ 08544 
jpbarton at princeton.edu 
609-258-3166