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Controlled Vocabularies for Form or Genre Terms
Order of Preference | Organization | Name of Thesaurus |
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Number of Terms (as of Aug 2024)
$2 Source Code | URL | Chronological Subdivision | Geographic Subdivision | |
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Number of Terms (as of Aug 2024) | |||
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1 | RBMS | RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging | rbmscv |
Do not subdivide | Do not subdivide |
1466 |
2 | LC | LC Genre/Form Terms |
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lcgft |
Do not subdivide | Do not subdivide |
2571 | ||
3 | Getty AAT | Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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(Terms in the categories of "object facets" or "genres in literature and performing arts")
aat | Subdivide item-specific terms by century, if known | Subdivide item-specific terms by country, if known |
(Terms in the categories of "object facets" or "genres in literature and performing arts") | ||
4 | LC | Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II) |
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gmgpc |
Subdivide item-specific terms by century, if known | Subdivide item-specific terms by country, if known |
1287 |
Indicators and Source Codes
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RBMS Controlled Vocabularies, previously comprising six distinct thesauri, have been integrated into the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging. Do not add any new terms with the following source codes: $rbgenr, $rbprov, $rbpub, $rbbin, $rbpri, $rbtyp
2) PUL Local Terms
Previously, a select number of Local Form/Genre terms were developed by Special Collections curators and catalogers, for application to specific subsets of material. As their application and MARC encoding has been sporadic, the the use of local terms by PUL cataloging staff has been discontinued.
Please do not add local genre/form terms when creating or updating catalog records.
You may encounter legacy local terms in our catalog such as "655 _7 $a Photographs, Original. $2 local" If so:
Replace the local term with an equivalent term from a preferred controlled vocabulary. For instance, "Photographs, Original" is equivalent to "655 _7 $a Photographs. $2 lcgft"
Leave the term as-is if no alternative can be found.