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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services
Date last updated: 04/06/2016
Date of next review: March 20172018
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Genre Terms
(Coded 655 _7 , with $2rbgenr $2 rbgenr at end)
We typically subdivide genre terms by country and century. For 20th-century novels, we subdivide the terms by country and decade. Each decade runs from 19x1 to 19x0.
Examples:
Plays$zFrance$y18th Plays $z France $y 18th century. $2 rbgenr
Novels$zEngland$y1901Novels $z United States $y 1901-1910. $2 rbgenr
Genre terms we commonly use, subdividing them by country and century:
- Broadsides
- Dialogues
- Diaries
- Fables
- Fast day sermons
- Fiction [used for short stories]
- Legislative addresses
- Novels
- Plays
- Poems
- Prospectuses
- Publishers' catalogs
- Satires
- Sermons
- Songs
- Three deckers
- Volvelles (this one need not be subdivided)
For terms that apply exclusively to the United States (such as “Fourth of July sermons”), we subdivide by state and century. Terms we commonly use subdivided by state and century:
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Provenance Terms
(Coded 655 _7, with $2rbprov $2 rbprov at end)
Example:
655 _7 Prize books (Provenance) $z England United States $y 19th century. $2 rbprov
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Binding Terms
(Coded 655 _7, with $2rbbin $2 rbbin at end)
Binding terms we commonly use (these don't come up often enough to need subdivision)
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Printing and Publishing Evidence
(Coded 655 _7, with $2rbpri $2 rbpri or $2rbpub $2 rbpub at end)
Printing or publishing terms we commonly use (these also don't need subdivision)
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