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Cataloging Training for the Clark Library: Controlled Vocabularies

Basic guidelines for searching and creating catalog records

Form & Genre Terms with subdivisions

For a full list of RMBS Controlled Vocabulary terms, please see http://rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocabularies/index.shtml

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DRAFT

Standardized Form/Genre Tracings (655 _7)

Note: Each term listed below must include subfield 2 ($2) indicating source of the term

Accordion fold format (Binding) $z Country/State $y Year [press coll. only]

Account books $Country $y Year

Annotations (Provenance) $y Century

Armorial bindings (Provenance) $y Century

Armorial bookplates (Provenance) $z Country/State $yCentury

Armorial stamps (Provenance) $y Year [of host item]

Artists’ books $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Auction catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Authentication (Publishing)

Authors’ autographs (Provenance) $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Authors’ presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century

Autographs (Provenance) $y Century

Ballads $z Country/State $y Century

Binders’ tickets (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century

Blind stamps (Provenance) $z Country $ y Century

Bookplates (Provenance) $y Century [for provenance, not WAC or CL]

Book prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Booksellers’ advertisements $z Country/State $z City $y Century

Booksellers’ catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Century

Booksellers’ labels $z Country/State $y Century

Broadsides $z Country/State $y Century

Clippings $Century

Commonplace books $Country $Century

Diaries $Country $y Year

Double fore-edge painting (Binding) $z Country/State $yCentury

Embossed stamps (Provenance) $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Ephemera

Epistolary novels $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Guidebooks $zCountry/State $y Year

Ink stamps (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century

Inscriptions (Provenance) $y Century

Insertions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Year [of host item]

Keepsakes $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Labels (Provenance) $z Country/State

Letters $z Country $y Century

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Markings (Provenance) $y Century

Miniature books $z Country/State $y Century

Monograms (Provenance)

Periodicals $y Century

Poems $z Country $y Century

Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $y Year

Printers’ devices (Printing) $z Country/State $y Century

Programs $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Prospectuses $z Country/State $y Century

Publishers’ catalogs $y Year

Second-hand prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Settle bindings (Binding) $y Year

Shelf marks (Provenance) $y Century

Slipcases (Binding)

Subscription lists (Publishing) $z Country $z City $y Year

Tax stamps (Publishing) $Country $y Year [of host item] $5 CLU-C [if applicable]

Travel literatures $z Country/State $z City $y Year [not Guidebooks]

Typefaces (Type evidence) $x [face name, or rarely, no subdiv.]

Type specimens $z Country/State $y Century

Utopian literature $z Country/State $z City $y Year

Wrappers (Binding) $z Country/State $y Century

 


 Binding Terms ($2 rbbin):

Accordion fold format (Binding) $z Country/State $y Year
Double fore-edge painting (Binding) $z Country/State $y Century
Settle bindings (Binding) $y Year
Slipcases (Binding)
Wrappers (Binding) $z Country/State $y Century

 Provenance Evidence ($2 rbprov $5 CLU-C):

Annotations (Provenance) $y Century
Armorial bindings (Provenance) $y Century
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) $zCountry/State $yCentury
Armorial stamps (Provenance) $y Year [of host item]
Authors’ autographs (Provenance) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Authors’ presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Bookplates (Provenance) $y Century [for provenance, not WAC or CL]
Ink stamps (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Inscriptions (Provenance) $z Century
Insertions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Year [of host item] 
Labels (Provenance) $z Country/State 
Markings (Provenance) $y Century 
Monograms (Provenance) 
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century 
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $y Year
Shelf marks (Provenance) $y Century

Printing/Publishing Evidence($2rbpri / $2rbpub):

Authentication (Publishing)
Book prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Printers’ devices (Printing) $z Country/State $y Century
Second-hand prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Subscription lists (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Tax stamps (Publishing) $Country $y Year [of host item] $5 CLU-C [if applicable]

? Include: “Printing Privileges” either Printing or Publishing Evidence.

  

Genre Terms ($2 rbgenr):

Account books $Country $y Year
Artists’ books $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Auction catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Ballads $z Country/State $y Century
Booksellers’ advertisements $z Country/State $z City $y Century
Booksellers’ catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Century
Booksellers’ labels $z Country/State $y Century
Broadsides $z Country/State $y Century
Clippings $y Century
Commonplace Books $z Country/State $y Century
Diaries  $Country $y Year
Ephemera
Epistolary novels $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Guidebooks $zCountry/State $y Year
Keepsakes $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Letters $z Country $y Century
Miniature books $z Country/State $y Century
Periodicals $y Century
Poems
$z Country $y Century
Prospectuses $z Country/State $y Century
Publishers’ catalogs
$y Year
Travel literature
$z Country/State $z City $y Year
Type specimens
$z Country/State $y Century
Utopian literature
$z Country/State $z City $y Year

Type Evidence ($2 rbtyp):

            Typefaces (Type evidence) $x [face name, or rarely, no subdiv.]

 

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