Genre/Form Authority Records
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Genre/Form Authority Records


Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 35 (August 29, 2007) contains the start of authority records for the TV and movie genres. Most have yet to make it into the LC authority datanbse.




- Lc To Add Subject Category Codes To Selected Subject Authority Records
The Library of Congress has announced they will add subject category codes to selected subject authority records. No earlier than August 2012, the Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress will begin an experiment to add subject category...

- Library Of Congress Genre/form Terms For Library And Archival Materials
Image by ekpatterson via FlickrNews from LC. Since 2007 the Library of Congress? Policy and Standards Division (PSD) has been developing genre/form terms, and in June 2010 determined that the new thesaurus, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library...

- Genre/form Headings For Radio Programs
In August 2007, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) announced a project to begin issuing genre/form authority records (MARC 21 tag 155) for motion pictures, television programs, and videos. As the next step in the development of genre/form...

- Genre/form Headings For Radio Programs
Adapted from the e-mail distributed to many lists. As the next step in the development of genre/form headings at the Library of Congress, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) would like to announce the beginning of a project to add genre/form...

- Validation Records
From the LC Cataloging Newsline Vol. 15, no. 3 (October 2007)The Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) has begun creating and distributing subject authority records called "validation records" that represent valid 6XX headings plus subdivision strings...



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