We are proud to announce the addition of two new genre databases in which to match your records against.
- RBMS — Rare Books and Manuscript Section
- TGM — Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Read more to learn about each of these databases.
RBMS – Rare Books and Manuscript Section
Association of College and Research Libraries, Division of American Library Association
These thesauri provide standardized vocabulary for retrieving special collections materials by form, genre, or by various physical characteristics that are typically of interest to researchers and special collections librarians, for relating materials to individuals or corporate bodies.
| rbbin | binding terms | 307 records |
| rbgenr | genre terms | 501 records |
| rbpap | paper terms | 290 records |
| pri | printing evidence | 152 records |
| rbprov | provenance evidence | 82 records |
| rbpub | publishing evidence | 39 records |
| rbrel | relator terms | 71 records |
| rbtyp | type evidence | 130 records |
New MARC organization code created for RBMS terms: IlChRBM
Backstage would like to recognize the effort of the following people for helping us obtain and convert the RBMS genre file:
Deborah Leslie, Folger Shakespeare Library
Jim Kuhn, Folger Shakespeare Library
Ryan Hildebrand, University of Texas at Austin
Jason Kovari, University of Mississippi
Stephen Skuce, MIT
Nina Schneider, UCLA
TGM – Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject terms to index topic shown or reflected in pictures, and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera and other categories.
TGM records are no longer maintained as MARC authority records; rather, they are saved as ASCII text and XML files. Backstage converted these two types of files, generating both MARC subject and genre authority records.
gmgpc – genre terms 670 records
lcgtm – subject terms 7,142 records
Tags: Announcements, Authority Control, Authority Records, Enhancements, RBMS, TGM