> On Apr 13, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Stephen Hearn <s-h...@umn.edu> wrote: > > as does the > relative newness of LCGFT terms.
LoC genre form terms have been around since the 1980s; they use to be called gmgpc, and I think were primarily used (correctly!) only by us archival photograph catalogers. It’s the sort of re-branding as LCGFT that’s new. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14099492 gmgpc could be coded in |2 of a MARC 6XX field - https://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/genre-form.html This is NOT to say that there’s not a huge mishmosh of terms in existing MARC records, that confuse what the item IS with what it’s about, and I’m also NOT arguing for usefulness of MARC coding. deb dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro SLIS, the iSchool at UW-Madison Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849
