It Takes a Village: Developing Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms |
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| Authors: | Janis L Young Yael Mandelstam |
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| Institution: | 1. Policy and Standards Division , Library of Congress , Washington , DC , USA;2. Leo T. Kissam Memorial Library , Fordham University School of Law , New York , New York , USA |
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| Abstract: | The Library of Congress (LC) is in the process of developing a separate thesaurus of genre/form terms, which describe what a work or expression is, rather than what it is about. From the beginning, LC policy specialists realized that to accomplish this undertaking, it would be both necessary and desirable to collaborate with the library community. This article examines and evaluates the various methods of collaboration used by LC in the creation of the genre/form thesaurus. |
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| Keywords: | authority control controlled vocabularies genre/form terms indexing vocabularies LCGFT Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials audiovisual materials law materials |
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