[DCRM-L] Eyewitness accounts

[Matthew C. Haugen]

Hi Deborah,

Maybe "Personal narratives" from LCGFT?
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026142.html

Its scope note is:

   - Works which relate eyewitness accounts of events such as wars or
   disasters
   - Per SHM H1095, <https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeSHM/H1095.pdf>
   $v Personal narratives can also be used as a free floating subdivision
   under subject headings for events and wars.

Matthew



On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 5:30 PM Deborah J. Leslie via DCRM-L <
dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu> wrote:

> I'm cataloging an eyewitness description of harsh conditions in London
> over the winter of 1623/1624, and was surprised that there isn't a genre
> term for eyewitness accounts anywhere I looked (RBMSCV, LCGFT, AAT). RBMS
> has relationship designator *witness*, which isn't going to help me here.
> I've cataloged a lot of purported eyewitness accounts of battles,
> executions, other events, and so  I reckon have most of you. Which makes
> me wonder why it isn't a thing—unless there's another term for the
> concept that I'm not thinking of.
>
> I can't imagine that it wouldn't be a useful addition to our genre/form
> vocabulary. The only objection I can think of is that, as suggested above,
> many purported eyewitness accounts are heavily fabricated; this is
> especially true of execution speeches and the like. *If* that's the
> problem, my response is that it isn't up to the cataloger to decide the
> truth of the contents, but to describe its genre, which in this case
> presents itself as an eyewitness account.
>
> Is there something I'm not thinking of, and any reason I shouldn't propose
> it as a new term to RBMSCV?
>
> Hope nobody reads this until Monday as you all enjoy your weekend.
>
> Deborah
>
>
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