NCompass Live: What’s Happening with Genre Headings?

What’s Happening with Genre Headings?

Emily Dust NimsakontNebraska Library CommissionNCompass LiveAugust 3, 2011

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What is a genre heading?

A genre is “a category that is identifiable by some of the following characteristics:

style, plot, device, mood or tone, character type, and theme.”

Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc. American Library Association,

2000.

Genre heading vs. Subject heading

A genre heading describes what something is.

A subject heading describes what something is about.

The same terms can be used as both subject headings and genre headings.

Examples:

The Animated Movie GuideWALL-E

Genre vs. Form

Genre = category of content

Action and adventure films

Jazz radio programs

Detective and mystery films

Form = format or purpose

Globes

Feature films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre + Form Together

Action and adventure films

Genre

Form

History of LC & Genres

• 2003 - MBRS asked if MIGFG could be merged with LCSH

• January 2009 - terms for moving images and recorded sound issued

• June 2010 - separate vocabulary created

• September 2010 - terms for cartographic materials issued

• June 2011 - terms for law materials issued

Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival

Materials

(LCGFT)

LCGFT

Established June 2010

Appeared in print in 32nd edition of LCSH

New authority recordsissued May 24, 2011

MARC for Genre Headings

Subject heading: 650

Genre heading: 655

Old:655 _0 $a Comedy films.

New:655 _7 $a Comedy films. $2

lcgft

Genre/Form Codes

http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/genre-form.html

Which disciplines have genre headings?

Law materials

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TreatiesCasebooksLaw reviewsExecutive orders

Cartographic materials

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GlobesMapsRelief modelsAstronomical models

Sound recordings

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Jazz radio programsOral historiesSports radio news programs

Television programs

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Domestic comedy television programsReligious television programsReality television programs

Motion pictures

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Action and adventure filmsDocumentary filmsPropaganda films

Video recordings

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Video recordings for the hearing impairedMusic videosStock footage

Motion pictures vs. video recordings

Others in progress

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Music

Religion

Literature

You can use subject terms for disciplines that don’t have genre

terms.

Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction

650 _0 $a Detective and mystery stories.

The Maltese Falcon

655 _0 $a Detective and mystery stories.

Do genre terms replace form subdivisions?

Usually, no.

650 _0 $a Thieves $v Drama.650 _0 $a Gold theft $v Drama.655 _7 $a Caper films. $2 lcgft655 _7 $a Crime films. $2 lcgft

651 _0 $a Nebraska $v Maps, Topographic.

is replaced by

651 _0 $a Nebraska $v Maps.655 _7 $a Topographic maps. $2

lcgft

LCGFT and Facets

A facet is “any of the definable aspects that make up a subject.”http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/facet

Faceting is “coding single terms or phrases, representing individual

concepts, separately in the bibliographic record.”

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_faq.pdf

LCSH

Soils -- Nebraska -- Maps.

NOTSoils.Nebraska.Maps.

LCGFT

Sports films.Comedy films.Feature films.

NOTSports feature films.

Where can you find genre headings?

Print Version

OCLC Connexion

http://authorities.loc.gov

How can we make use of genre headings?

Keyword searching

Indexed with subject terms

Indexed separately

Indexed separately

Facets

Other Vocabularies

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Other Vocabularies

Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc. (GSAFD) http://alcme.oclc.org/gsafd/

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/

Other Vocabularies

Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms (MIM) http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/migintro.html

Radio Form-Genre Guide (RADFG) http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/frmgen.html

Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm

Managing multiple thesauri

• Do all 655s get indexed?• Watch for conflicts between terms in

different thesauri• Authority records for all terms

• University of Washington genre headings: http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/GenreHeadings.ppt

Resources

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

Resources

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_faq.pdf

Resources

http://www.oclc.org/us/en/connexion/overview/websessions.htm

Thank you!

Emily Dust NimsakontCataloging Librarian

Nebraska Library Commission

emily.dust.nimsakont@nebraska.gov800-307-2665

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