Library Cataloging
Moving Image Genre/Form Project Report
In early 2007 the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) of the Library of Congress initiated a project to create authority records for genre/form headings (MARC tag 155), which indicate what a work is, as opposed to what it is about....
This past Tuesday members of CPSO presented a report on the moving image genre/form project to LC managers. The report
explains the function of genre/form headings, including the impact that they have on both cataloging operations and end-user searching;reviews the history of genre/form headings in MARC format and at LC over the last decade;explains the logic of choosing moving image headings as the experimental group and the principles and policies that CPSO developed as the project progressed; and,recommends the expansion of genre/form headings beyond moving images and radio programs into such disciplines as law, music, literature, cartography, and religion.
From an email message.
The report says that the prefered method of entering genre/form information is 655 rather than subfield v. Is this the general consensus? Has any research been done? Any MLIS student even written a paper on the pros and cons of each approach?
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Genre/form Headings For Cartographic Resources
Image via WikipediaLC continues to create cartographic genre/form terms. The Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress continues to develop genre/form headings on a discipline-by-discipline basis, and will implement genre/form headings...
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Hierarchies For Moving Image Genre/form Headings
LC has requested comments about hierarchies for moving image genre/form headings.In 2007 the Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress began an experiment to develop genre/form headings in the area of moving images (films, television...
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Timeline And Plan For The Next Five Library Of Congress Genre/form Projects
News from LC.In July, 2008, the Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) management team approved five new genre/form projects to be undertaken by the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (now the Policy and Standards Division):...
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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...
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Av Cataloging
The UCLA Film and Television Archive's Cataloging Procedure Manual (CPM) is now available on the Archive's web site.It uses a combination of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. rev. (AACR2R) and Archival Moving Image Materials: a Cataloging...
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