[DCRM-L] New Genre Term Scope Notes available for comment on RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Blog

[Carpenter, Jane]

Dear Colleagues,

The Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group has posted 7 new Genre Term scope notes to the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Community Discussion blog  http://rbms.info/cv-comments/  Although these terms were already part of  Genre Terms, and have established usage, they lacked scope notes.  The CV team is  undertaking a systematic a review of all of those terms without scope notes, and composing definitions for each of them, and is seeking feedback from the rare materials community.

For final comment on CV Blog:
The comment period has been extended to July 24, so please chime in with your suggestions or edits:

*       Parts (Music)
*       Part books
*       Memorial works
*       Election sermons
*       Directories
*       City directories
*       Gesta


Terms approved at Annual:
Scope notes for the following 11 terms have been finalized and added to the Controlled Vocabularies genre list http://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm (pending posting by the Web Team):

*       Theater programs
*       Type specimens
*       Literary forgeries
*       Literary hoaxes
*       Masques
*       Lyric poems
*       Fables
*       Exhibition catalogs
*       Execution sermons
*       Dime novels
*       Concrete poems

Deleted terms
*       Pamphlet wars
*       Penny poems

Please add your comments to the blog--we look forward to hearing from you!

Jane Carpenter and Ryan Hildebrand, Co-Chairs
RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group
Amy F. Brown, Genre Terms Scope Note Project


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