Geraldine Ostrove Library of Congress June 23, 2007

Implementing MARC 21 Fields 155 and 655, Genre/Form Terms:

Terms for What Library Materials Are, and Not the Topic They are About

Geraldine Ostrove Library of Congress

June 23, 2007

Cataloging Policy and Support Office Web Page Announcement

GENRE/FORM AUTHORITY RECORDS

June 12, 2007

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre.html

Other Public Postings Related to the Genre/Form Initiative and the First Special Project

MOVING IMAGES

Yee, Martha. Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms. Compiled by Martha M. Yee for the National Moving Image Database Standards Committee, National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute ; coordinated by Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, 1988.

Special Project

RECORDED SOUND

Radio Form/Genre Terms Guide

Compiled by the Recorded Sound Section,

Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/frmgen.html

Typical Radio Form/Genre Terms Guide bibliographic headings:

655 #7 $a Children's programs $v Radio. $2 radfg

655 #7 $a Public service announcements $v Radio. $2 radfg

Special Project

MUSIC

150 MUSIC AUTHORITY RECORD, EXAMPLE 1

053 $a M285.5 $b M285.6150 $a Duets (Unspecified instrument and piano)450 $a Duets (Piano and unspecified instrument)450 $a Piano and unspecified instrument music450 $a Unspecified instrument and piano music

150 MUSIC AUTHORITY RECORD, EXAMPLE 2

053 $a M115 $b M119150 $a Harp music360 $i headings for forms and types of music that include “harp” or “harps” and headings with medium of performance that include “harp” or “harps”680 $i Here are entered compositions not in a specific form or of a specific type for solo harp, and collections of compositions in several forms or types for solo harp.

150 SAMPLE HEADING

053 $a M217 $b M223

150 $a Violin and celesta music

450 $a Celesta and violin music

Violin and celesta music as a topic

Basic record155 $a Violin and celesta music

Records for topical uses150 $a Violin and celesta music $v Discography

150 $a Violin and celesta music $x History and criticism

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