[DCRM-L] chapbooks: SH or FG?

[Ryan Hildebrand]

Hi Silvana,

The latter two options make sense, the first, not so much as it would indicate aboutness rather than form. In local systems with a dedicated genre/form index, I find the 655 option most appealing. If using the term "Chapbooks" as found in the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies, subfield 2 is coded rbgenr. 

If subject and genre headings are lumped together in a single subject index, a 650 with |v may be seen to have the advantage of indicating form unambiguously. That said, I believe I would still enter as 655, and would not double index with a 650.

I can't offer strong reasons for my preference, except the 655 option strikes me as more intuitive, and possibly more useful in the not-so-distant future when our data might be more easily faceted. -Ryan


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Subject: [DCRM-L] chapbooks: SH or FG?

Hello all,
I am doing special collections item-level cataloging for a collection of modern Brazilian chapbooks and I wasn't sure if I should include "chapbooks" as a 650 SH or a 655 FG, or both. And, of course, other records I checked are allover the place on this. I would be inclined to read an unqualified 650 as a book "about" chapbooks, but so many records include them for actual chapbooks. I'll probably end up second guessing any independent decision I make at his point, so thoughts or advice on practice would be appreciated.

So:
650 Chapbooks, Brazilian.
or
650 Chapbooks, Brazilian|vSpecimens.
or
655 Chapbooks|zBrazil.|2###

Or some combination?

Thanks,
Silvana