Source Codes for Genre
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
Contents
- aat
- AAT: Art & architecture thesaurus (New York, NY: Oxford University Press)
- amg
- Audiovisual material glossary (Dublin, OH: Online Computer Library Center,
Inc.)
- bgtchm
- Basic Genre Terms for Cultural Heritage Materials (Washington, DC: Library of Congress)
- bt
- Bioethics thesaurus. (Washington, DC: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown
Univ.)
- dct
- Dublin Core list of resources types (URL: http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dcmitype/
)
- ericd
- Thesaurus of ERIC descriptors (Washington: Educational Resources Information
Center, National Institute of Education, U.S. Dept. of Education)
- estc
- Eighteenth century short title catalogue, the cataloguing rules. New ed
(London: The British Library)
- fast
- Faceted application of subject terminology (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC)
- -ftamc
- Form terms for archival and manuscripts control. (Stanford: The Research
Libraries Group, Inc.) [Obsolete: Used prior to August 1991; term list
subsumed by AAT at that time.]
- gem
- GEM controlled vocabularies (Syracuse, NY: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information
& Technology, Gateway to Educational Materials)
- gmgpc
- Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic
terms (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- gsafd
- Guidelines on subject access to individual works of fiction, drama, etc
(Chicago: American Library Association)
- gtlm
- Genre terms for law materials: a thesaurus (Littleton, CO: Rothman Pubs.)
- ilot
- ILO thesaurus: labour, employment and training terminology = Thésaurus
BIT: terminologie du travail, de l'emploi et de la formation = Tesauro OIT:
terminología de trabajo, empleo y formación (Geneva: International
Labour Office)
- lcsh
- Library of Congress subject headings. (Washington: Library of Congress)
- lcshac
- Library of Congress subject headings: Annotated Card Program., AC Subject
headings (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- lctgm
- Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM I, Subject terms. (Washington, DC:
Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- local
- Locally assigned term. [See the explanation in the Introduction]
- marcgt
- MARC genre terms (subfield $2 in Bibliographic and Community Information
records in fields 655) Online: www.loc.gov/marc/sourcecode/genre/genrelist.html
[use after March 10, 2003]
- mesh
- Medical subject headings (Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine) [Used
when the second indicator is not adequate to identify the source]
- migfg
- Moving image genre-form guide (Washington, DC: Library of Congress. MBRS)
- mim
- Moving image materials: genre terms (Washington: Motion Picture Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress)
- ngl
- Newspaper genre list (Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside,
Center for Bibliographic Studies, California Newspaper Project)
- nimafc
- NIMA form codes (Bethesda, MD: National Imagery and Mapping Agency)
- nmc
- Revised nomenclature for museum cataloging: a revised and expanded version
of Robert C. Chenhall's system for classifying man-made objects (Nashville:
American Association for State and Local History)
- radfg
- Radio form / genre terms guide (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, MBRS,
Recorded Sound Section)
- rbbin
- Binding terms: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections
cataloguing (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA)
- rbgenr
- Genre terms: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloguing
(Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries)
- rbpap
- Paper terms: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging
(Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA) [Used for
printing terms.]
- rbpri
- Printing & publishing evidence: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special
collections cataloging (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries,
ALA) [Used for printing terms.]
- rbprov
- Provenance evidence: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections
cataloging (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA)
- rbpub
- Printing and publishing evidence: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special
collections cataloging (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries,
ALA) [Used for publishing terms.]
- rbtyp
- Type evidence: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections
cataloging (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA) [Used
for printing terms.]
- sao
- Svenska ämnesord (Stockholm: Kunglige Biblioteket, LIBRIS-avdelningen)
- tsht
- Thesaurus of subject headings for television (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press)
The Library of Congress is the maintenance agency for this source list. Questions
and requests for information should be sent to: Network Development and MARC
Standards Office, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington,
DC 20540-4402; Fax: +1-202-707-0115; Internet: ndmso@loc.gov.
Requests for additions to the source list should include a full bibliographic
citation
(and photocopy of the title page, if available) for the item to be added.
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