RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Genre Terms
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- Scope Note
- Use for a list of items, arranged methodically, containing descriptive details for each item.
- Broader Term
- Purpose of work (Gathering term; do not assign)
- Narrower Term
- Academic catalogs
- Narrower Term
- Exhibition catalogs
- Narrower Term
- Library catalogs
- Narrower Term
- Museum catalogs
- Narrower Term
- Sales catalogs
- Related Term
- Price lists
- Comment Field
- Although Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language (the authoritative dictionary for the RBMS thesauri) lists "catalogue" as merely an alternate spelling to "catalog," and although the shared cataloging code used by the English-speaking world is entitled Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, the former has increasingly come to be viewed as a British spelling. More to the point, all of the other thesauri with which we have agreed to cooperate both in resolving existing conflicts and preventing future conflicts use the spelling "catalogs." We realize this change introduces some ironies, particularly that of putting the spelling of the term within the thesaurus at variance with the spelling of the term on the title-pages of the thesauri. Nevertheless, we think that this is a change that has to be made, barring the wholehearted re-embrace of the "ue" by Americans, and fear that the longer we wait, the greater the conflict between RBMS thesaurus terms and other thesaurus terms commonly used in the cataloging of American libraries.
Send comments to Ryan Hildebrand, Controlled Vocabularies editor.