Backstage is pleased to announce the immediate availability of two new
thesauri for your genre/form matching. Both the RBMS and TGM databases can
be added, at no extra cost, to your profile. Please just let your project
managers (Jeremy Myntti
<mailto:jmyntti@????subject=RBMS%20and%20TGM%20Thesauri> , Judy Archer
<mailto:jarcher@????subject=RBMS%20and%20TGM%20Thesauri> ) know and we
will have it added in time for your next bibliographic processing. Details
about each thesauri are below.
RBMS - Rare Books and Manuscript Section
- Association of College and Research Libraries, Division of
American Library Association
These thesauri provide standardized vocabulary for retrieving special
collections materials by form, genre, or by various physical characteristics
that are typically of interest to researchers and special collections
librarians, for relating materials to individuals or corporate bodies.
rbbin
binding terms
307 records
rbgenr
genre terms
501 records
rbpap
paper terms
290 records
pri
printing evidence
152 records
rbprov
provenance evidence
82 records
rbpub
publishing evidence
39 records
rbrel
relator terms
71 records
rbtyp
type evidence
130 records
New MARC organization code created for RBMS terms: IlChRBM
Backstage would like to recognize the effort of the following people for
helping us obtain and convert the RBMS genre file:
Deborah Leslie, Folger Shakespeare Library
<
http://www.folger.edu/>
Jim Kuhn, Folger Shakespeare Library
<
http://www.folger.edu/>
Ryan Hildebrand, University of Texas at Austin
<
http://www.utexas.edu/>
Jason Kovari, University of Mississippi
<
http://www.olemiss.edu/>
Stephen Skuce, MIT <
http://www.mit.edu/>
Nina Schneider, UCLA <
http://www.ucla.edu/>
TGM - Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials
by subject and genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject
terms to index topic shown or reflected in pictures, and 650 genre/format
terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and
other categories.
TGM records are no longer maintained as MARC authority records; rather, they
are saved as ASCII text and XML files. Backstage converted these two types
of files, generating both MARC subject and genre authority records.
gmgpc
genre terms
670 records
lcgtm
subject terms
7,142 records
Backstage would also like to extend a special vote of thanks to Jeremy
Myntti for his efforts in working with all parties inside and outside of
Backstage to get these databases ready for our clients.
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<mailto:nate@????subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Query>
Vice President, Automation Services
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